August Snowboarding

The Tusk on Elephant mountain. There is a lot of snow around here that is here to stay.

Stone Creek

It's a pretty good trail, despite the 1,000,000 switchbacks.

Blackmore trail

It's a tough climb, but real good descent. Fresh snow in the mountains. . .



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New toys

New camera 1 as taken by new camera 2


self portrait riding the $8 mount fuji.

Shafthouse trail

It's in the north Bridgers


An interesting comment on the first photo: The little puffballs in the background in front of the mountain are actually clouds of insects.

Link to a few more

The Snowcrest Mountains

Not much going on down there.

I'm a winner! continued

So after winning that Outside Bozeman Photo contest I was expecting to get some kind of lame prize at the awards ceremony yesterday. Boy was I wrong. They gave me the best overall grand prize and I won a $3,000 (retail)camera setup and a poster sized print of the winning picture. It's a Pentax K20D and 2 lenses, a flash, a memory card and a sweet camera bag. I've been wanting a new camera, and the $5 in my checking account right now wasn't going to cut it as far as getting one. Lucky me.

Tobacco Roots

Descending from 10,000'





The start of a glacier? A lot of patches of snow here probably aren't going to melt this year. . .

Butte America, USA

Went to Evel Knievel days last weekend. It was really something.

The Ridge

Talked Alan into "riding" from Bridger Bowl to the M on Sunday:



Goat!



"Hazy skies, caused by wildfire smoke originating in California, are likely to last throughout the summer."

Hail!

I made it home on the bike with less than a minute to spare. Holy cow, it sounded like someone was beating the house with bats. Looked like it afterward too.

Pollinators

A couple photos I took for a friend who is doing a project on native pollinators for The Pollinator Partnership.


Missed the wasp, but the shadow is pretty neat.

Snowboarding July 16th

Just south of Flathead Pass in the North Bridgers.

Lima peaks advocacy ride

The Dell Merc.


A sweet anticline



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100th post

The Bridgers from the top of the Stone Creek trail

These next couple are from a camping trip to the Lionhead area by West Yellowstone and Ennis.

Sheep Lake in the Lionhead


There is a threat that this trail will be closed to bikes. That would not be cool. You can write a letter here to try and prevent that. I think Sheep Creek is one of the best backcountry trails I've ridden in Montana, and I've ridden a few. Some more info on the closure here and here.


And here's one of the log bridges from that trail. This one was scary to ride because you had to turn onto it and loft your wheels about 8". The pressure was on for Aaron and he didn't even flinch.

I'm a winner!

I won first prize in the Action category of the first annual Outside Bozeman photo contest with a photo of Marshall on Mount Baldy just outside Bozeman (ha ha). They featured my photo in their latest issue along with the other winners. I get some kind of prize awarded to me at a ceremony or something at the end of the month, but they don't know what or when yet. Sweet.

Some Pictures

Backlog from the last couple of weeks. Summer finally started two weeks ago here so I've been trying to take advantage of it when I'm not writing my thesis.
Kujo

House rock

Joe

Mercedes OM617.952


Marshall and Arrowleaf Balsamroot

Mantis!

I got hired by a friend to take some pictures of farm animals, insects, plants and people on Monday. I like how this macro of a praying mantis turned out a lot.

(by the way, it's cleaning one of its front legs off with it's mouth. It was pissed off after I dipped it in water so it would sit still for me)

Did some powder skiing last wed. June 11th is definitely the latest I've shredded the pow.

Went camping over the weekend in the Tobacco roots and did some mountain biking.


that's the South Boulder river by moonlight, about a 400 second exposure.