Missoula Events

Praying for snow and uphill travel

With 30 inches of settled snow at Big Mountain’s summit stake and plenty of skiers making preseason turns on a sun-soaked Monday morning in Whitefish (check out those tracks in the image from the south summit webcam!), it would seem that Saturday night’s annual Pray for Snow party at the Bierstube was a success.

The utmost deference [...]

Idaho man to compete in world ski mountaineering championship

Photo by James Hlavaty. Luke Nelson of Pocatello participates in ski mountaineering. He has made the national ski mountaineering team and will compete in the world championship in Italy

Apparently I’m soft, based off Luke Nelson’s definition. That’s just fine by me.

I like to trail run, but when there’s so much snow that snowshoes are required, [...]