Chronicle Outdoors

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Going out with a bang: Bridger chair lift’s last day one to remember

| April 8, 2010

BRIDGER BOWL – One word: epic. There’s not much more to say about the last day of the Bridger Bowl ski season or the last stand of the Bridger chair lift. For 46 glorious seasons the Bridger lift ushered skiers and snowboarders to the heights of the Bridger Range with access to the North Bowl, [...]

Trout Unlimited’s West Slope Chapter receives $9,746 to restore Deer Creek

| April 5, 2010

Trout Unlimited, the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, awarded a $9,746 Embrace-A-Stream grant to its West Slope Chapter in Missoula on April 5, 2010. The Embrace-A-Stream grant will fund a project to remove a culvert where Deer Creek enters the Clark Fork River near the site of the old Milltown Dam east [...]

Gallatin National Forest closes Hyalite Road to motorized use for spring break-up

| April 5, 2010

The Gallatin National Forest has announced the closure of Hyalite Road south of Bozeman for spring break-up. The road will be closed to motorized use from April 1-May 15, 2010 while the Forest Service clears the road of fallen debris. Break-up generally occurs with the onset of spring and the thawing of the canyon. According [...]

Biking season in Yellowstone National Park offers thrills, chills for cyclists

| April 1, 2010

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – It’s come to this: I’m 10 minutes from the parking lot at Mammoth Hot Springs pedaling uphill into Yellowstone on my brand new mountain bike and I feel like hell. I’ve soaked through my shirt. My legs are burning. My lower back feels like its being squeezed in a vise. My [...]