![]() Other steep terrain can be had off of the Challenger and Headwaters lifts, which ply the lower shoulders of Lone Peak. For that kind of steepness, head from the tram to Castro's Shoulder, which averages 50 degrees. It's persistently steep, with an average of 42 degrees but not so steep as to lock knees up with fear. The shot down Lone Peak's gut, The Big Couloir, gives expert skiers a legitimate challenge with sustained narrow and rock-walled path. The tram carries only 15 passengers at a time up the stretch of 1,450 vertical, but because most of terrain from the top is highly technical, crowds and lines don't grow too cumbersome. It picks skiers up at a point reached by the Lone Peak triple chair that's already well up the mountain. Unlike the trams at Jackson Hole and Snowbird, the car riding on cables at Big Sky does not scale the entirety of the resort's vertical. Since it opened in 1995, the Lone Peak Tram has been the best known facet of skiing here, with good reason. The skiing at Big Sky runs from steep and harrowing to wide, easy and open. Once skiers make it here, however, they can expect a dearth of lift lines and, if they're lucky enough, a whole day skiing powder (as opposed to just an hour or two) if it happens to dump. Bozeman has developed a nice little airport to support the resort, but Big Sky still takes a demonstrative traveling effort to reach, unless travelers hail from airport hub cities with direct flights (Denver, Chicago, Dallas, a few others). ![]() The best thing about skiing at Big Sky is its lack of crowds.
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