Whitefish, MT – Big mountain, big fun 4/4 – 4/6/2011

Posted by: Sting in Trip Reports

Apr

Spent 2 glorious days skiing the 3000 acres Whitefish Mountain Resort located in the Flathead Valley just 31 miles from Glacier National Park. This big mountain had it all – a wide variety of terrain for all levels including endless glades, bowls, cliff drops, THE lightest powder in the northwest and fun apres skiing at the Bierstube. It was 18 degrees up on the summit with 5″ new when we arrived on 4/4 – temps stayed cold and about half a foot fell each day we were there. With very few people on the mountain, we skied fresh tracks daily. The locals here are so friendly that it took no time at all to meet Conor O’Neil and Nathan Powell, some of the most kick ass freeskiers we’ve every skied with (seriously- hi speed 20+ ft cliff drops, back flips, etc in tight trees -all on cue). Below are some pix while TNT edits up the video. Thanks guys for showing us how to ski Whitefish and finding fresh tracks each run before the other 98 skiers got there (ha). And big thanks especially to Dave, their snow reporter, for hooking us up with a ticket and talking us into skiing another day (which we would’ve done anyway). We’ll be back for the backcountry trips in Glacier National Park in June/July for sure.

1st shot of the day