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howdy cuban

yeah wow, but i think there were 15 more years before that.

seems like yesterday, but the body aches says it's true...

all is well here, it's been a good hot summer with alot of days on the lake.

lots of fires in the northwest going on right now, but here not as smokey as it could be.

hope you are having a great summer and i'm looking foward to seeing you again...

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smoke report: thu aug 20, 2015

howdy all

we are all going to hell... with fires all around us the lite winds pushed the smoke

directly in our direction and today is the first day of really thick smoke. can't see

big mountain from town which is only 7miles away. here's a pic of the smoke...

 

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smoke report: sat aug 22, 2015

howdy all

wow what a difference a day makes, yesterday was thick smoke then a front from

the north comes down about 5pm and clears the smoke out and this morning clear

blue sky sunshine. so had to take advantage and went for a long paddle, my longest

to date, almost to the other end, but with the wind on my back and getting stronger

i turned around just past eagle point. the wind was in my face all the way back.

started about 11:30am and got back just past 5pm. forcast is the smoke to return

tomorrow... here's a pic of my route...

 

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smoke report: mon aug 24, 2015

howdy all

went up to big mountain to pay for my season pass. caught the free shuttle with

my beach cruiser. rode the gondola up to the summit and walked around and to

my suprise they are doing a huge remodel on the summit house. they have added

a pitched roof and a second floor on the front with a faux rock front and a new

skipatrol shack. too bad it was smokey like thursday's pic above, could not see

whitefish lake from the summit. rode the chair down to the base lodge then rode

my cruiser down big mountain road, took my time and went slow and walked

some cause the last time i did it my coaster brake got really hot. watched some

of the kids riding their mountain bikes down and it looked like fun... hummm...

need mountain bike...

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smoke report: tue sep 01, 2015

howdy all

today was amazing... what a beautiful day, no smoke even on the horizon all around.

blue skies and puffy clouds and a good wind that kept things cool. so went for a power

paddle and went about half way around the lake. not too many boats as most people

are gone cause the kids are back to school. paddled hard for five hours... goodtimes!

 

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smoke report: fri sep 04, 2015

howdy all

fall is in the air... a front came thru yesterday and it's been a little cooler and no

smoke from the fires. cloudy and a little humid with some rain last night which we

really needed. the skiwhitefish site is going thru some changes. they posted this

pic yesterday...

 

 

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snowreport: wed sep 16, 2015

howdy all

oh shit! rider down... just saw johnasmo in the AIL post, looks like a dislocated shoulder.

i hope it's not as bad as it looks, heal fast john. i was thinking of getting a mtn bike, but maybe not.

saw you last night and should have stopped to say hi and could have gotten all the details...

80 more days till opening...

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Trust me, you don't want the deets - I got them all over dinner at Truby's on Sat night and wish I hadn't.  :eek:  That's a salutary lesson in why I am yet to take on gap jumps. Hopefully he'll post up with details on what the surgeons thought.

 

Guess you don't know your limits until you hit them ... hard. (ouch)

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snowreport: mon oct 26, 2015

howdy all

well, i'm calling it the summer that never ended... it has been nice till today, alittle cloudy

and alittle chilly, but still not that cold. still no snow on the hill, 40 days and 40 nights till

opening day so old man winter better wake up, but maybe he died in his sleep and we

will never see snow again... here's a pic of the baselodge about 4pm, at lease we have

some wet weather, finally!...

 

 

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End of October - I know I said I wanted a nice fall, I certainly got that. Not even any rain to speak of in the city for the last few weeks, although there has been intermittent snow to the west. All the mountain bikers are still out tearing it up, and complaining that the trails are dusty - and the current weather is forecast to last at least another week. At least it's got cold enough to convince me to pack the motorcycle away.

 

They were reporting a skiff of snow in Banff today. I don't think they're going to make a mid- Nov opening though.

 



 

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snowreport: thu nov 05, 2015

howdy all

worked today and started to snow about 11am and snow/rain all afternoon.

slow at work and with the falling snow everybody in a good mood. the big

got a couple of inches down at the baselodge. forcast for this week is a few

days of some snow. old man winter is slowing down and forgetting what time

it is.

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snowreport: thu nov 26, 2015

howdy all

Happy Thanksgiving!... snowed an inch here in town on tuesday and temps are

getting colder because of clear skies. today beautiful bluebird skies and very cold.

way down south got some good dumping, but here not so much. forecast for this

week is sunny and cold. i think bigsky opens today and we will open on december 5.

i'm thinking it will be delayed a week or more. still a lot of grass showing...

i am thankful it is ski season... woohoo!... i'm ready...

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snowreport: mon nov 30, 2015

howdy all

my computer died on Friday night, the hard drive is fried. this is my first post with new computer,

just picked it up tonight. don't like it now, but i'll get used to it. much more good stuff inside so

things run faster. well, not too much to report as far as snow goes, it's been cold, but forecast

is a little warm up by opening day. I think they will only open the backside (chair 7 and 11) and

maybe chair 3 and chair 6 for sure because it is the link to the baselodge. not really excited, yet...

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snowreport: sat dec 05, 2015

howdy all

opening day... everybody not too excited, but happy to be making some turns.

did a few runs on chair 6 before chair 1 opens, chair 6 had good coverage from

the man made snow. nice compfy temps and mostly sunny, going up chair 1

you could see how little snow we have. the backside only chair 7 was running

and only caribou, whitetail and goat haunt was open. there was so many little

pine trees and little bushes all over the runs. I was surprised that they did open.

did a bunch of runs then went back to chair 6 and looked at chair 3 which they

made snow and groomed it good and only a few people was on it so I did a

bunch more runs there, it was good carving snow. pushed it pretty good for the

first day and i'm feeling it now. oh yeah, had to download on chair 1...

rode the amp5 softies from 9 till 1...

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snowreport: sun dec 06, 2015

howdy all

worked in the morning, but got cut loose early so up to the big and got on snow

about 1pm. went straight to chair 3 and it was a little chewed up, but still carved

good. high grey overcast, but vis was good and temps was compfy. started to

snow pretty good just after 2pm, kinda wet snow and halfway down the mountain

going home and in town it was raining. people are finding out that chair 3 is a

good place to be... forecast is more warm wet weather all this week...

rode the 157fp from 1 till 3...

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