Montana Skiing: New Years post

Sitting here in Pennsylvania rather idle for the first time in a while I started going through photos to kill time. Had a great year tapping into many zones for the first time including Glacier National Park, Great Bear, Yaak, Tetons, Wasatch, Moab Desert, Sawtooth, Lost River, Boulder/ White Cloud, Missions, Big Hole, Pintlers, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Rainier to name a few. With the relitavly stable snowpack last year here in the local mountains there was no shortage of near perfect days, roaming around I always looked forward to returning home to the Bitterroots, Missoula, and Hamilton to see familiar mountains and faces.

Thank you to all of my great friends coming up with awesome trip ideas, inviting me on trips, giving me a place to crash in between adventures, teaching, training, pushing, cheering, supporting, lending gear, giving beta, and putting up with me not being able to sit still at times... only one out of state ski trip was made alone this year, and most of these trips would not have happened alone.

Hopefully next year will top this one. Excited to explore Alaska, Cook City, NW Washington in the next few weeks and who knows what will happen after that. Lots on my want-to-ski list as well as a bike tour, climbing and traveling, maybe too much for one year... or maybe not! . . . hopefully gas prices stay low. Cheers to adventure.

A few photos here mostly pulled from Facebook and the iPhone