Lost Lake is behind Big Sky and next to Moonlight Basin, accesible through a forest service access gate off the peak of Lone Mtn. Today we waited the 7 (or more) tram car wait to get back there and ride some untracked goodness. The run was a chute that I never caught the random name of (one chute back there was named 'Mullet") and the top was shark-finned rocks at times. After that though it the turns deepened up significantly and it was a solid fast runout. From there we chilled for a few, then prepared for the hike out.
The hike out was a solid 25 minutes, plus perhaps. This put us atop another ridge we could drop into that eventually funneled us back into moonlight basin terrain. In total, the experience took about two and a half hours, but the tram line can account for almost half of that. I was intrigued to see the area because I'd heard about it for so long, and theres always a desire to be familiar with the mountain entirely.
Today was a recon mission for future trips back there for sure. We tried to take on Wyoming Bowl at the end of the day but ski patrol advised against it due to the temps. It's on the list, and after that it would mean i've been around this mountain 360 degrees, which goes to show how big this resort has the potential of becoming. We talked about it before the hike out that there was a definite possibility a lift tower will be where we were sitting in the next few years. These resorts are racing to topple all US resorts in skiable acreage, but without improving the already existing issues going on here they'll be building a faulty foundation- as if they already haven't been.
...So I wake up a week or so ago to a dark living room, and its 6am so im up putting the coffee on. Making my way through the kitchen this large furry thigh high thing rushes by me and disappears. Yeah- soon i realized it was a dog, but my initial reaction was absolute shock, like "what was that!?!?" Flicked the lights on and I meet Odie, this pointy-nose collie with a phone number on his neck. Alright, well all of this doesnt change the fact it was 6am, and this dog was pretty chill it seemed so i went back to bed awhile. After roomates wake up I make my way out and the story came together that Odie was cold and nervous about being cold and outside, i guess, and my roomate justin was told by a cute girl down the hall "you should take that dog in for the night!" so in short thats how Odie crashed at our place one night. When Odie's owner came to pick him up he didn't want to go with her, now that was some funny stuff that you really couldn't laugh about till it was over.
Derek Doucette came into town for 4 nights and 5 days, something like that. He got to ride some pow, see bison, catch montana fish in a montana river, and experienced a sample of how a handful of people live their lives up here in the mountains. The first day he was here there was only slight sympathy for his acclamation to the whole place, and we had him deep in the trees riding up to cliff lines. He'd never rode out west before so we tried to give him a buffet line of montana stuff to do. I say 'we' because everyone threw down some time with derek.
...stay tuned...
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