We find out about Big Sky Resort in Montana and look into the multipass options in the States, including the Epic, Ikon, Indy and Mountain Collective passes.
We also have our regular snow reports, your feedback, Team GB news and equipment expert Al Morgan reports from the SIGB Ski Test in La Clusaz.
Host Iain Martin was joined by Nancy Shiel, Head of Ski Patrol at
Big Sky Resort in Montana, and Stuart Winchester, host of the
Storm Skiing Podcast.
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SHOW NOTES
Tim Hudson from
Inspired Italy is in the Dolomites (5:45)
Alex Armand from Tip Top Ski Coaching is in Les 2 Alpes (7:00)
Alex Irwin from 150 Days of Winter is in Courchevel (7:30)
Mia Brookes finished 3rd at the
X Games Slopestyle in Aspen (9:15)
Jasmin Taylor now has three wins this season in the Telemark World Cup (9:30)
Laurie Taylor
tied with Dave Ryding for 15th at Kitzbuhel (9:40)
Freddy and Zak Carrick Smith will be taking part in the European Youth Olympics (9:45)
Ski kit expert Al Morgan was out at the
SIGB Ski Test in La Clusaz (10:20)
Listen to our
equipment episodes or
watch them on YouTube (12:45)
Nancy has been working on the ski patrol at Big Sky for over 20 years (13:15)
Watch the Big Sky Ski Patrol
in action (15:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f896Bsukqi0
“Big Sky is titanic, sprawling, impossible” (16:15)
Big Sky is in south-west Montana (16:45)
You can
visit Yellowstone National Park in winter from Big Sky (17:30)
The resort has 5850 acres of skiable terrain and has 400 inches annual of snowfall (18:45)
The
Lone Peak Tram is a standout lift (20:00)
Peter Landsman in
Episode 181 described it one of the lifts you must ride (20:15)
Stuart is host of the
Storm Skiing Podcast (24:00)
“Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains” (24:15)
The Epic Pass
started in 2008 (28:00)
The issue of overcrowding in US ski resorts (32:00)
The Ikon Pass has
introduced ‘reservations’ to limit overcrowding (33:00)
The
Indy Pass is “the coolest thing going” (34:15)
Glencoe and The Snow Centre in the UK are both on the Indy Pass (37:30)
Will there be mergers between t