Skiing Bridger
Sunday January 28, 2007 at 6:19 PM
Last week I woke up on a Saturday and we had perfect weather for skiing here in Bozeman. It was overcast all day, with a good chance for a few inches of fresh snow. I grabbed my stuff and went over to Bridger Bowl for the day.
It was my first time skiing out here, and it was definitely very different compared to Minnesota. If I could describe it in one word, it would be “powder.” Skiing in powder is hard work!! The entire mountain has dozens of runs, most of which are either blue or black. The blue runs here are more like the blacks I’m used to back home. 
- Skiing at Bridger Bowl (8 pics)
Anyway, I found out there were over 2,000 people out on the entire hill, but it didn’t seem like that at all. It’s just such a large hill that everyone ends up being really spread out. So most of the lift lines were fairly short. The weather isn’t the greatest this weekend, but I’m keeping my eyes open for good skiing weather on the weekends.
Thanksgiving and Christmas
Sunday January 28, 2007 at 6:13 PM
A couple of us from Chi Alpha got together and carpooled back to Minnesota for Thanksgiving. Along the way we dropped off Leanne somewhere in North Dakota, and ran into an evil McDonalds. It must have been something weird with their neon lights, because their sign was as a nice red.
- Pictures from Thanksgiving and Christmas (17 pics)
On Thanksgiving night, we went to sit outside the Best Buy in Green Bay, Wisconsin all night for the Black Friday sales. We got there around 11PM, and there were already about 70 people in line. We ended up sitting about half way down the side of the building. Most people said they were trying to grab a cheap laptop. By around 5AM there were easily over 300 people in line, stretching around the back of the store.
Anyway, this year they had some nice deals on LCDs, and I needed one badly. I picked up both the 19″ Samsung and a 22″ Westinghouse, because I wasn’t sure which one would work best for my desktop. It ends up the 22″ was a huge overkill, and so I stuck with the 19″ for my desktop. For a few months I’ve been using the 22″ for a media center downstairs, but I just sold it to a friend.
Well, I also flew home for Christmas. Instead of the rushed couple of days around Thanksgiving, this time I came home for two weeks. I was still really wound up from the semester. I probably would have kept myself working full-time if I had stayed in Bozeman, so I’m glad I went back. While I was back we got to go skiing as a family over at White Cap, which was great because I hadn’t been skiing for almost a year.
