Tag: Gallatin National Forest

  • Dinner and beers around the campfire followed by a night of rain pattering atop the roof of the Cruiser as we slept warmly and comfortably. After a relaxed breakfast and coffee under the tarp with rain pending all day our group packed it in and headed back to town.

  • Flashback to December, 2011 and our How to Build an Igloo project.  

  • David Cronenwett using a wedge to reduce logs to kindling during a one-day wilderness survival course in the Paradise Valley region of Montana.

  • Snow Business – A Firsthand Account Of Producing An Avalanche Forecast

    Snow Business – A Firsthand Account Of Producing An Avalanche Forecast thelastchair: (Written by Eric Knoff, Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center – February 13, 2014) I’m skiing in fresh and stable powder when the alarm cuts through the early morning silence like a buzz saw. I quickly roll over and check my phone. It’s 3:15…

  • Yesterday a skier near Mt Blackmore in the northern Gallatin Range was literally picked up and tossed onto his back by a gust of wind.  One gust hit 87mph.  Photo: B. Vandenbos via mtavalanche.com.

  • Surly Troll with Madshus Epochs on a Spring mission into Hyalite Canyon, Bozeman, Montana, USA.

  • Friends and I on a dawn patrol last week.  The Absaroka Beartooth Mountain range lights up at sunrise in the distance.

  • Headwaters, Deep Creek Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, Montana, USA.

  • Kyle and Sam Scoping the summit, Northern Gallatin Range, Montana, USA.