Anyone getting out and climbing mountains with all this good weather we've had?

It's about to turn cold and wet, and I can't wait until we have a base to ski on...


credit: NOAA via Mike Heard

edit: original title was misleading: "Fall in MT" whoops!

The one week of fall we had was nice...so much rain lately!

Winter is coming... and our first serious storm is dropping snow in the Bozeman area.
Already ~18 inches of snow in the Bridgers at 7300 ft.
Reports of 32-24 inches of snow at Bridger Bowl near the top of the ridge.

~11 inches and counting at 8100 ft in the Hyalites

Watch out for the early season avalanches! They will be furious with those numbers!

Sunday, I got out to Elephanthead, in the north Absarokas. It was a really fun, short climb, and we were right ahead of the storm, which we could see raveaging the peaks to the south. Then it snowed for a couple days but only about 5 inches here at 6000'.
The weekend before I was up by Outlook above Emerald (Heather) Lake in Hyalite, but the snow was already there.
Perhaps in a few days it will turn off nice again and I can get in a couple more short climbs before dragging out all the winter gear.