Montana Trip '08 [bozeman: bridger bowl]

after two days of snowshoeing in yellowstone we headed up to bozeman to visit one of our favorite towns and to partake in some prime montana skiing. we woke, blurry-eyed, and thought a stop to get re-charged on some wake-up drinks [mocha and energy smoothies] would be a grand idea.

we saw the bozeman food co-op and couldn't resist!

it blew our minds! we're fans of small, local grocers.

when our breakfast drinks were ingested [side note: i highly recommend the global warming smoothie!], we rambled up the road to bridger bowl. bridger bowl is a great local ski resort about thirty minutes north of bozeman. it had great skiing, sun, and emil's mile.

beautiful montana skies and mountains could be seen from
everywhere!

bridger bowl has some great skiing, with a fairly decent
distribution of difficulties. each selection [green,
blue, and blacks] had multiple runs of varying degrees.
andrea and i skied together most of the two days. she kicked
butt on every run she took! i think i held the record for falls:
two. she stepped out of her comfort zone and tackled bigger
and bigger runs; everything to her success!

looking up at emil's mile. don't be fooled, it was a steep
blue run. i am so proud of andrea knocking this mountain
up-side-the-head. her skiing progressed rapidly with every
run.


andrea getting ready to embark on emil's mile.
she rocks!

route selecting.

we couldn't have asked for a better two days of skiing.
time to pack it in and head up to helena to visit kevin, annie,
and sammie.