We had a very pleasant hike with Dave and Julie, two old friends, and Vic A., who joins us sometimes. It was a beautiful Bluebird, blue sky day, with mild temperatures. The hike went off pretty much as planned in the proposed hike notice, except that when we reached the Larry Creek loop road we …
Marshall Canyon, Sun. Mar 19th, 2023Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie KahlThis was neither an epic or even strenuous snow hike, exploring what the GPS labeled as “Woods Road,” going from the head of the Rattlesnake’s Wood Gulch, down across the north face of Mt. Jumbo, but it was a glorious spring day, sunny with …
Participants: Michael Young, David & Julie Kahl I have been leading this trip, almost every year, for over 20 years and this was the nicest conditions of any trip. Trips have ranged from breaking trail almost the entire way, in several feet of new snow -with help from the Bitterroot Ski Club, to walking out …
Leader: Forest Dean Participants: Elizabeth Moore, Chris Soriano, Scott Williams, Joe Wagner, Mark Albrecht, Ashley Prunier, Tim Ward, Sean Colvin, Luke Jacobson We gathered our large group in the Lolo Hot Springs parking lot at 8:30am. Club member Andrew Twardowski had arrived earlier and buried a couple of beacons in the snow and allowed us …
Crystal Amphitheater Ski Tour (Winterfest) January 7, 2023 Read More »
Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie Kahl It was snowing all day at Lolo Pass, we met at 9:30 to try and get up there before the parking got filled up, but there was plenty of parking. We got our season parking sticker. David opted to ski around some of the closer in trails while …
Leader: Forest DeanParticipants: Brent Maier, Frank Dean, Tim Ward, Jacob McFarlane A couple winters ago, Brent had skied up on East Boulder and spied a fairly big ice flow. Ever since he had been proposing that we go try and climb it. With that in mind, we put this trip together. However, a couple days …
East Boulder Peak (Bitterroots) December 3, 2022 Read More »
Participants: Steve Schombel, David and Julie Kahl Though this trip was slated for Lolo Pass, with a winter storm coming in, Lolo Pass didn’t look very inviting, snowing with 40-50 MPH/65-80km winds. We opted instead to take our skis and snowshoes to Lubrecht, to see what we would find. There was a little more snow …
Annual Sunday after Thanksgiving Winter Outing Sun. Nov 27th, 2022 Read More »
This was a fairly straight forward hike, we’ve done this a lot as an early season, tick reduced hike, and got to where we could first see the downhill ski area infrastructure, but never knew where we were in reference to the old ski runs. We left Peter’s vehicle at the base of the Marshall …
Mittower Gulch To Marshall Mt, Sun. April 10th, 2022 Read More »
It was a hard day to dress for, the weather reports said we could find a dusting of snow at valley level, but we didn’t. But, after meeting at the Snowbowl parking lot in Grant Cr., as we drove west down I-90 to the western Alberton exit, it was obvious we were driving into snow …
Participants: Great Burn ranger Rory, Great Burn representative Kat, Rocky Mountaineer members Arthur Endsley, Forest Dean, Jim Semmelroth, Cathy Semmelroth, Candy Hartman, other volunteers Zoey, Max and Justin. Our group met at the Clearwater Crossing campground at 8:30 the morning of the 23rd. Fortunately the rains from the previous day were done but, due to …
Cedar Peak Trail Improvement Project September 23-25, 2022 Read More »
