Backcountry at Big Sky and Moonlight Basin

[icantskiiFILM]

yo im goin up there this february and was wondering how the backcountry is at these 2 mountains and how easily accessable it is. ive never been out west so i have no clue what its like

 

[powninja]

Some nice backcountry close by. Beehive is right there and if you traverse west of the dakota lift there is a real sick ridge you can ski. I forget what it's called but you can see it from the lift. You have to skin out or bootpack, but I would prefer to skin out. Also off the backside of lone peak there is some good shit but all of this stuff you need to know about avys quite a bit cause the avalanche danger there is usually pretty high.

 

[Aenigma]

There's backcountry gates at Moonlight and Big Sky, as well as places like Beehive. However, these areas are all susceptible to a lot of wind loading, weird sun exposure, as well as an overall super variable snowpack, so if you haven't done quite a bit of backcountry skiing I wouldn't recommend any of them at all.

 

[dowalibeast]

if you want lift accessed backcountry to go bridger

 

[NWFlow]

If you've never been out west, I reckon you'll be fine skiing the inbounds terrain.

 

[steezerampage]

how many days are u there? big sky and moonlight have a lot of inbound terrain to explore

 

[icantskiiFILM]

im going there for 6 days. and ive also been to europe a lot just not the west idk how they compare to each other