Beartooth Highway to Open for Memorial Weekend While much of the Beartooth Mountains remained blanketed in record-breaking snow last winter, road crews plowing the final stretches of the Beartooth Highway say the annual undertaking has gone mercifully smoothly, reports the Billings Gazette. “It’s not an easy year by any means, but it’s not a record,” said Steve Reed, the field maintenance supervisor for the Montana Department of […] SnowBrains | May 21, 2018 0 Comments
Montana DoT Use Drones to Recce Beartooth Highway before Clearing to See How Much Snow They’ll be up Against Before starting to clear the Beartooth Highway this year, Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) crews flew a drone up the mountain to see the amount of snow they would be up against. Check out this sweet footage from near the top. There is more drone footage from the rest of the mountain on their YouTube playlist. SnowBrains | April 26, 2018 0 Comments
No Cell Signal? No Problem: Beartooth Device Converts Phone to Walkie-Talkie Can you hear me now? Cell phone service on the mountain is notoriously spotty at best and flat-out nonexistent far too often. A company out of Bozeman, Montana, has a new devise to remedy the no-cell-service problem. Introducing the Beartooth. About the size of a deck of cards, this device works in conjunction with your smartphone, via a free app, […] Gear Review Robin Azer | December 7, 2016 0 Comments
Summer-Only Ski Resort Beartooth Basin, MT/WY Will NOT OPEN This Year Well, this sucks. We love Beartooth. It’s North America’s only summer-only ski resort and it’s run by real skiers and riders. We’ll just have to look forward to riding here next summer. Beartooth is siting a major lack of snow as causing the closure this summer. Up until today, they were planning on opening on May 23rd, 2015. “Well folks, the rumors are true – we won’t be able to open this […] SnowBrains | May 6, 2015 3 Comments
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