Bozeman Peeps… scenic hikes for me and the wifey??

Views FROM the mountains may be tough to get on foot because of snow but you could try Sypes Canyon or the M trail, both at the southern tip of the Bridgers. You may be able to get to the summit of Baldy from either of those trails. Sypes is looking pretty snowy right now.

For good views OF the mountains, I would drive out to Headwaters state park and/or Buffalo Jump state park. They’re both west of town and have nice views looking east. Those are both real easy strolls.

Packed out for hiking… yes indeed! Descending Blackmore Creek on Friday, we blew past numerous hikers. Needless to say with their wet feet they were a little jealous of us having a great time riding down the slushy, bermed out trail.

Hey Lifelink, we rode the Ribbon that day, which isn’t very representative of the general snowpack in the area. No obvious signs of instability on the way up (except on obviously sun-affected aspects). I won’t go into a detailed report, but we dug two pits including one right at the base of the couloir and found moderate stability, but things broke BIG when they finally did. Buddy held a 200+ chunk of dense hardslab for a minute! We proceeded very cautiously and bagged a killer line in outstanding condition. But after reading the avy report today, I think the relative stability we find may have been isolated. Be careful, have fun and dig lots of pits!
I’ve been thinking that the Blackmore region offers some of the best splitboarding terrain anywhere. Besides the obvious great terrain and easy access up there, you can ride in board mode the entire 5 miles out the drainage! I only stop twice to unbuckle. I love that kinda stuff.
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sounds like you definitely found some of the rare pockets of stability. we were planning on heading into cottonwood to give a go at hellmouth, but high winds and a lot of new snow kept us riding pow on the east face of blackmore. btw our pits were all over the place. in the same pit a column failed while isolating with Q1 and right next to it got CT15 with Q2. Gotta keep a good eye out right now. oh and riding waist deep pow with full pack on the way out was actually really fun :thumpsup:

Hey Lifelink, good to hear you’re using the Blackmore TH to access the Cottonwood/Hellmouth region. Back in the day before the thing became popular 😉 seemed like most folks were trudging up the Cottonwood drainage to get there.
BTW, a good friend of mine did the Hellmouth back in January and replaced/left hardware for rap anchors in two different places. Good to know! Too bad the Hyalite’s closed for a month and a half. I’d get after it with you in May if you’re still interested.
Thanks for the snowpack info too. An interesting year!

Gorgeous.

anyways never bad to get 2ft dumps in april. woo hoo

If you like crust on deep heavy snow to ride in. Holy motherfucker yesterday was the roughest I’ve ever had. The line was one I’d only ever gotten once before so it was nice to have conditions set up with this storm for a shot there. Then again I took a really stupid climb out and 1000 switchbacks in deep heavy mank left me torched :banghead: . What a difference a day makes.

anyways never bad to get 2ft dumps in april. woo hoo

If you like crust on deep heavy snow to ride in

i was more meaning for setting up lines for spring, but the new snow we have been getting isn’t to shabby lately. Went and rode some nice pow at teton pass(little hill in montana not WY) last weekend and things have been pretty nice locally as well. I am kinada jonensin for things to settle a bit so we can get after some bigger things though. hope everyone is gettin out and enjoyin the snow