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Fun in the snow in Montana - Taking the kids!

Robyn Erlenbush

Robyn Erlenbush
CRS, GRI, CRB, Broker Owner
Phone: (406) 586-1321
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Mary Blilie had been at Big Sky Resort in Montana for just one day but had already snapped more photos of her kids than she had in a long time.

When Blilie, now a Minneapolis engineer, was a kid her family skied here every winter. Now, after a 17-year hiatus, she was determined to create some of those same happy memories for her own two children, as well as her nieces and nephews who, along with their parents, had come along for the trip down memory lane. The resort might boast new lifts and base village buildings this season, but Blilie says that low-key vibe remains. "No one gets too bothered about anything," she explains. And the skiing couldn't be better—some 400 inches of snow a year.

Big Sky and neighboring Moonlight Basin offer the "biggest skiing in America"—5,512 acres with the Big Sky Resort-Moonlight Basin Interconnect that joins the two adjacent ski areas. The terrain is guaranteed to satisfy every skier and snowboarder in your family, whether they want the steeps and deeps (like my kids); long, pristine groomers where, even on busy days, you might not see another soul (my pick); or wide, gentle runs ideal for beginners. "My son doesn't want to leave," said Los Angeles-based Sandy Itkoff, a guest at Moonlight Basin.

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