The hurt is the same, but here the people are gone, ... In New York, you could see the hurt on the people's faces. Here, there are no faces. It's abandoned. Compared to Sept. 11, the scale is huge. Just the smell of it, the damage that the water does, it's amazing.

College will be a growing experience for me beyond academics and classes. Everyone here is older. We're adults. Everyone is forced to be mature. Nobody is going to hold your hand like they did in high school.

He sounds like a particularly mischievous 14 year old to me. Not too big to be put over his dad's knee, I wager.

It's not about being fearful, but being ready to react in the right way.

There's too much snow to close. We were closed, but we'll reopen for Friday and Saturday.

It's fun to bring a big statewide event to our local area. The locals get to share the park with some of Montana's best riders.

This is a nice family New Year's Eve event, as opposed to some of the other more edgy celebrations. This also is one of the few public participation torchlight parades. Most resorts use staff, but we don't have that many staffers, so we allow the public to join in.

That was a bad start for us, with them scoring so early.

One guy riding by on his bike just asked if I'd sell him my tickets.

So we thought maybe tomorrow is a good day to let things settle down a bit and pass through.