Jewel Basin

Damn, you beat me to it. I went up today, and it was fucking rad. You have to hike about a mile to the normal parking lot, which is under 4 feet of snow at present, but the lines are cool on the front, and unreal on the back. I got as far as the microwave shack, but Ineous looks so tasty right now..... Pictures in a bit.
 
Pictures:

The parking lot ( the outhouse is open and ready for business)

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A shot from the ridge to the west of what I skied, I dropped the rightmost part of the main snowfield.

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Stupid.

A shot of Picnic lakes. The lower one is completely snow, and the upper has only a tiny bit of water showing.

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What Ineous looks like. I need to go back and hit that soon.

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A shot from the bottom after ripping my line. If you look carefully, you can see that I made about 4 turns the whole way down.

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For all those who want to go, the FHS Alpine club is doing a skinning/skiing/boarding/ (?sledding?) trip for those who want to hit up some snow on Sunday, June 3. We will meet at the Echo Lake Café at 10:00 am.
 
REMEMBER! THIS COMING SUNDAY, WE ARE GOING! Meet at 10am in the parking lot at the Echo Lake Cafe, and we will go from there.
 
i am staying up till 4 am sunday morning for the senior party. i dont think i want to drive 4 hours and ski after that. believe i would love to go though
 
I am also going to the senior party, but I am definitly going skiing.

I went up today, but didn't do any skiing because I got to where you can park right now, and realized I had no water. I was not very happy about that...
 
And so, to avenge the loss of yesterday, today I returned with 2 waterbottles.

The snow is a bit further up the road, but I parked in the same place, which felt really annoying at the end of the day because I had to go 1/4 mile on a dirt road in ski boots.

This is Ineous' summit and north face at the moment:

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Looking north towards columbia falls.

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A bit of cornice came down sometime in the last week or so. I was pretty sketched about this, but nothing happened while I was there and I was a long way back from the edge.

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Me on the summit

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My rad line of, oh, 5 turns?

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And the place that would be amazing to build a jump on Sunday ( with added graphics for your viewing pleasure)

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Sunday will be rad!
 
Ben (amonieve) and I went up today. Ben basically straightlined the face and then ate a ridiculous amount of shit at the bottom, partially snapping his board and screwing up his ankle. Pics later.
 
these pictures are sweet! thats what i need to be doing. the only skiing ive done this month is scrape together some of the snow that fell this past week and build a sketchy little kicker. fun, but not like these shots.
 
As the snow melts, the lines only get more interesting because of the rocks that start to appear. Come on up and join the fun.
 
Ben and I can make it up that face in about 25 min or so. The hike in is about 2hrs, but so worth it. And don't forget the jump and pond skim possibilities too.
 
Yes! Come!

And LMP and friends as well as amonieve and friends and I will be heading up on Saturday. It will be epic!
 
dude that trip was so epic! we made it home in 3 hours and 15 minutes and drew only managed to offend one person, when he asked a lady if she wanted to see a picture of his pregnant friend. i will try to upload some pics when i get a chance
 
the trail head is about 8 miles east of big fork, not sure how far we hiked but it took about 2 hours with ski gear on our back to get to that bowl
 
Bigfork is about 20 minutes south of Kalispell. The parking lot for Jewel Basin about an hour to 45 minutes from Bigfork, and then the hike up to Aneous is about 2 1/2 hours beyond that. Sick skiing though. In the winter, the road is only travelable on snowmobile.
 
As of yesterday, you can drive up to the big switchback (~ 1mi. from the trailhead). There was about a foot of new, wet snow up on radio ridge, that was sliding on some aspects as a wet slide. There is still lots of snow (looks like April or May snowpack).
 
Yeah, it was raining at the car, so you had so suffer through the wet until you got up near the ridge, where the precip turned to snow. The snow on the backside was heavy, but still fast and creamy( we skied north of the radio tower), but the frontside back down to the car was pretty wet and sticky, but still fun.
 
We skinned in. However, as of yesterday afternoon, there was like a foot of snow on the road, and you could only drive about 3-4 miles up. There was like 18" in the parking lot of new, dry snow-- this meant bonafide face shots in june.
 
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