Bridger Bowl Montana l Hiking the Ridge and Snowboarding Down Pearly Gates

Hiked the famous Bridger Bowl ridge terrain from the Bridger Chair. I've done a fair amount of resort peak hikes and found this one to be a little harder than I expected, it looks so short on the map! Only had one section that was sketchy that felt like we were climbing straight up a chute, besides that it was just long and taxing. But the sun came out towards the top and we had one funnnnn run down Pearly Gates. Sparse trees in the top section then it funnels from about 150ft down to about 6ft before opening back up into a big apron. Every run at this resort that DIDN'T require the avalanche gear was solid ice... so finding these powder stashes up top was an awesome way to cap off our time at Bridger Bowl Ski Area.