With the home we bought in Montana, I pretty much have to get a on a plane to ski but other than trips to ski with Harald in Colorado, I rarely get on a plane to go anywhere else to ski. I have skied most of the name resorts in the U.S. and I encourage everyone to hop on a plane and come ski Big Sky. The terrain is unrivaled anywhere in North America (some may prefer JH or Snowbird or Squaw or some other spots but BS has steeps and big mountain skiing that is on par or better than anywhere). But what you also get is an an empty mountain with no lift lines and the snow quality rivals colorado and Utah (more snow than Colorado and similar quality, and less snow than Utah but better quality). The only knock that you can make on the mountain is that there is no 5 star resort to stay in and the area is less built up with restaurants and other ammenities. It also can get very cold for a few days at a time but this happens all over the rockies. You get 4000 vert with some of the best lift accessed sidecountry skiing in the world and it's also over 6000 skiable acres when you include moonlight basin which can be skied on a combo ticket (all connected).
Not trying to be a commercial but Big Sky is 50 minutes from the bozeman airport. You can fly direct/non stop from several cities including SF. From many places you do need to connect to get there (either through SLC. Denver or Minneapolis) but you make up the extra 2 hours of travel time on the first day with no lift lines and that much more skiing.
No one that I know has ever left Big Sky without being blown away by it.
Something to consider when making plans to hop on a plane to ski!!
Sounds like Heaven to me.
To be honest, lack of people is one of the biggest attractions for me me to go anywhere. I get a fair amount of midweek skiing in at an area that is rarely crowded (or even used at times). I get antsy if I see one other person on the same trail as me sometimes. I have little use (or ability to swing) 5 star resorts, and the fact that Big Ski is also the Big Empty makes it my number one future destination.
I hear, due to the immense variety of terrain it s a great location for a very mixed ability group...do you find that true? 'Cause I have to say, most of the places I've been too are not--they are either tilted strongly towards strong, advenrurous intermediates and experts (The Cottonwood canyon resorts, Taos, JH, Red, Big Mountain) or too attractive to the Pedestrian skiers (Most of Summit county, etc). Even the places with incredible diversity of terrain like Whistler, are still better for experts because the blue terrain is always so chock full of people! Anyway, Big Sky sounds like the panacea for a group of mixed ability skiers.
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