realskiers

Liam, yes Big Sky has it all as far as terrain. They have wonderful cruiser blues that run forever and some of the best of those runs are over on the Moonlight Basin side. There are also plenty of low pitch green runs as well. It is a great family mountain or as you say for mixed abilities. Obviously for the accomplished skier there is a huge amount of challenging terrain.

Jim, I find March to be the best month at Big Sky. In December, January and Feb it snows some amount 3-4 days of every week, but the amounts are generally small usually 2-5 inches at a time. The storms at this time are usually arctic storms that come down through canada and by the time they hit Montana there isn't a whole lot of precipitation left (and obviously there are some big storms in these months as well but fewer). Usually by late February, we start to get Pacific storms that make their way over. These will dump much more snow and March and early April often bring foot + dumps and pretty regularly. The weather is also warmer. You do run some risk in April that you get some warmer temps above freezing on the lower mountain. usually up high the temps are colder and the snow holds up well until the mid April. Typically temps are upper teens to mid twenties in Feb and March (with some shot for temps above freezing in March at times) and generally flirting 32F in April (and obviously we are talking in generalities as anything can happen in the mountains). In March it is also quite a bit sunnier than in January and 18f and sunny feels very comfortable in March (and usually it is in the low to mid twenties).

If you come out let me know and I will try to make it a point to get out when you are there and we can ski together.