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Montana-a state that holds a strange place in ski lore, especially for extreme skiers. Mickey Price at Beartooth Pass, Wyoming Go only if you're humble and quiet nd accept that the locals here are so locals anywhere else, that Montana is a tough, rugged place and that Mickey Montana any Mickey is not you'd expect of a mogul coach. He's tall and lanky and goofy. He little and when he does he tends towards lop-sided syllogisms. But ere's something you should know about Mickey and Montana and the rela- PHOTO: TRAVIS ANDERSON untold secret of --'""" I S if you want to find the steep and hard, go to Montana. tionshiR etween the two-in Montana people worship Mickey. Strangers and :lCo Rilonal skiers will pull you aside to tell you that Mickey is the finest skier ">::!: i:R<; they have ever seen. Montana Mogul is based outside of Red Lodge where there is little more than a dusty main street and a scattered showering of fishermen. It is here that Mickey has assembled four or five coaches and 20 to 30 kids. They ski all morning, work on the trampoline all afternoon, have video review at night and are a unit unto themselves. Montana Mogul is a reductionist version of bump camp: all the glamour and glitz stripped away, leaving a sick version of the Great Western Boy's Club gone skiing. Skiing actually takes place just across the border in Wyoming. Every morning skiers get up and drive to the top of Beartooth Pass where, at 11 ,000 feet, there is a steep gash of snow served by two Poma lifts. The bathroom is a port-a-potty that doubles as a lightning rod.