Whitey
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Took the family out to Big Sky for school vacation week. Splurged and got on-mtn ski-in/out place. I've got 10 days out here so I'll probably be posting a lot of pics.
Big Sky has been on my bucket list for a long time. All my skiing friends who have gone there have raved about it. They were right. What an amazing mountain. All of them had prepped me for how big it is. Nope - still exceeded my expectations, it's huge. My big thing for skiing is I want "interesting" mountains. I want changing terrain, slopes, areas that feel completely different even though they are in the same ski area. Big Sky has that in spades, and I've only sampled about 10% of what they've got. And as many have said - so big that no matter what there are no lines and wide open trails that you can ski by yourself. We skied President's Day as our 1st day, I never waited on line.
Day 1: Our flights were delayed so we got into BS later Sunday night than expected. Because of that we did our shopping and getting sorted out in the AM on Monday. So we had a late start, probably 10:30. Didn't matter, my legs were cooked by 3:30. We stayed mostly to the Madison Base area as it was crazy cold (-5) and Madison had the sun on it all day. There were areas of untracked and lightly tracked powder all over and my boys loved that there was a long terrain park that they could ski right out the back door of our place. In the afternoon I took the Lone Tree Quad and skied off of that. Imagine having an area the size of Waterville with stashes all over and NO ONE skiing there - that's what skiing just that one area was like in the afternoon.
Top of Six Shooter six pack chair (oh yah - forgot to mention, the views are unbelievable too):
This is somewhere in the trees off of Iron Maiden:
View of the Stillwater Bowl area from about 1/2 way down off of Lone Tree Quad:
Good view looking back at Lone Peak (you can see the top tram station at the top) I think this trail is Marshall:
Big Sky has been on my bucket list for a long time. All my skiing friends who have gone there have raved about it. They were right. What an amazing mountain. All of them had prepped me for how big it is. Nope - still exceeded my expectations, it's huge. My big thing for skiing is I want "interesting" mountains. I want changing terrain, slopes, areas that feel completely different even though they are in the same ski area. Big Sky has that in spades, and I've only sampled about 10% of what they've got. And as many have said - so big that no matter what there are no lines and wide open trails that you can ski by yourself. We skied President's Day as our 1st day, I never waited on line.
Day 1: Our flights were delayed so we got into BS later Sunday night than expected. Because of that we did our shopping and getting sorted out in the AM on Monday. So we had a late start, probably 10:30. Didn't matter, my legs were cooked by 3:30. We stayed mostly to the Madison Base area as it was crazy cold (-5) and Madison had the sun on it all day. There were areas of untracked and lightly tracked powder all over and my boys loved that there was a long terrain park that they could ski right out the back door of our place. In the afternoon I took the Lone Tree Quad and skied off of that. Imagine having an area the size of Waterville with stashes all over and NO ONE skiing there - that's what skiing just that one area was like in the afternoon.
Top of Six Shooter six pack chair (oh yah - forgot to mention, the views are unbelievable too):
This is somewhere in the trees off of Iron Maiden:
View of the Stillwater Bowl area from about 1/2 way down off of Lone Tree Quad:
Good view looking back at Lone Peak (you can see the top tram station at the top) I think this trail is Marshall:
