Winter Break 2010-2011

Minus 5 temps...hair and wool fibers frozen

Saddle and Bridger peaks in the southern Bridger range
Two climbers clipped in on 'the dribbles' (WI4), a multipitch ice climb in hyalite canyon...
The same climbers...
...still visible as a speck on the wall.

Winter break 2010-2011 has been fun...Time off from school to hang with my family and enjoy the rocky mountains is always good. I ice climbed and skied every day for a month (almost), and that provides for a lot of adventure. ...Since this blog is supposed to be about science and adventure, some parameters that comes into play when climbing and skiing in the winter months has a lot to do with the condition of solid water in the form of snow and ice. Mass and phase (of water), air temperature, wind velocity/direction must all be judged to gain perspective on conditions, not to mention the rates and time values of these parameters ...not that that this is super difficult...bozeman and other mountain towns teem with amateur snow scientists, and some of them even get into it and get degrees.

Thanks again to all my climbing and ski partners and my family and friends for hanging with me and enjoying the winter holiday! (sorry no pics of me with the fam, just a few mountain images...note the climbers in the last 3 images as it zooms out, to see the scale of the mountains)