Start of the ski season

The ski season at Chief Joseph Pass officially begins this coming Saturday, December 1. There has been over a foot of new snow at the pass in the last week, but we are currently planning on having the main trails starting from Chief Joseph Pass groomed with snowmobiles, but there will not be tracks set. The lower trails, Joseph Creek, Banshee, and Middle Fork still need more snow. The Multi-use trails, Gibbons pass road, will probably not be groomed. Once the season starts dogs are no longer allowed on the ski trails, but are allowed on the multi-use trails all season.
The Gordon Reese Cabin will be open for use a warming hut starting Saturday.

Subscribe to our mailing list

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required


Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required


November 2018 meeting


The days are getting short, the mountains are getting white, and it’s time for the first club meeting of the year. The November meeting will be held on November 8 at 7pm, at the Presbyterian Church, 1220 West Main Street, Hamilton, MT.
Jesse Crocker give a slideshow and tell stories about the 2018 Tour Divide bike race, a 2700 self supported mountain bike race down the continental divide.

Grooming Report Wednesday 3/21/2018

Pisten Bully’s still down, volunteer grooming team was out today knocking down the 14+” of snow that fell after we groomed last Sat.

Rolled all of the trails, but they were getting kinda lumpy from just grooming with the rollers, conditions have not allowed us to drag it for the last couple of weeks.

Dug out the YTS leveler/compaction drags, they were only under 5′ of snow! Took some digging but we found them where we had leaned them against a tree, much digging later we got them out. They had not been moved since mid-dec.!

Dragged all of the upper trails, came out nice. We will be back up on Sat. to drag everything again and set tracks,.

Grooming Update 3/16/2018

The snowcat that Lost Trail uses to groom the trails at Chief Joe is still down for repair, and will not be fixed by the end of the season. Our volunteer snowmobile grooming crew will be out this Saturday, and plans on grooming once a week through the end of March.