Missoula Events

Big Sky Resort luring CO skiers with free skiing, snow

Snowy Big Sky Resort is trying to entice snow-deprived Colorado and Tahoe skiers and riders to Montana in January.

For the month of January, skiers with the Epic Pass from Vail Resorts in Colorado and California will ski for free at Big Sky. Rather than complain about the lack of snow, Big Sky is “spreading the love” [...]

Steamboat trademark says no Champagne Powder TM (snow) in Montana

The Missoulian received a “cease and desist” letter recently from Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation asking that the newspaper never use the term Champagne Powder TM (snow) in any story ever again because the ski resort trademarked the phrase. The term appeared recently in a Missoulian weather story.

(Pause for rolling of the eyes)

Does this sound familiar?

Remember [...]

Aspen’s Christy Mahon becomes first woman to climb and ski all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks

Photo by Ted Mahon

A Colorado lady with ties to Missoula became the first woman to climb and ski all 54 of the 14,000-foot peaks in the Centennial State.

Not only has Aspen’s Christy Mahon become a media darling since her feat in May 2010 — appearing in Skiing Magazine and Outside magazine, among others —   [...]

4 Missoula athletes vie for spot on US ski team

Jordan McMannis, of the Missoula, Mont., Freestyle Ski Team, flies off the top jump of the Voo Doo run moguls course at Steamboat Ski Area on Friday. The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team selections begin today. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Four athletes from the Missoula Freestyle Ski Team are competing against 200 other free style skiers for [...]