Big Sky Resort's Big Couloir is everything expert skiers are hoping it will be: a tight, technical entrance, sustained vertical that sets your thighs aflame, and just exposed enough to make your knees ...

It's common knowledge that every skier, no matter the skill level, is one error away from taking a serious spill. Hopefully, though, that inevitable future spill isn ...

Generations of skiers have known Big Sky as a low-key ski destination. But with new luxury resorts and tricked-out lifts, word is about to get out. Mark Hartman Descending the Liberty Bowl at Big Sky ...

The most famous ski run at Big Sky Resort in Montana is called The Big Couloir, and requires those daring to take the plunge to check in with ski patrol before descending. Plus, they are required to ...

Balancing on a narrow ledge at the top of Lone Mountain Peak, I peer down one of North America’s steepest and most challenging ski runs, the Big Couloir — a triple black diamond-graded gully ranging ...

In December 1947, somebody up on Big Mountain overlooking Whitefish Lake strung a rope on an old Model T wheel and started pulling skiers up the side of the hill. So this year marks the 75th ...

Corbet’s Couloir, a fearsome ski run located at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming, is considered by many to be the most challenging in-bounds trail in the United States. But Corbet’s isn’t the ...