Skiing in Montana: April, 2007

How do I start telling you about the Yellowstone Club? It is, without exaggeration, the greatest ski resort on earth.



The Yellowstone Club is for members and their guests only, and to be a member, you need to buy a home or buy a lot with the intention to build a home.

Fortunately for me, I am on very good terms with the very first members of the Yellowstone Club, who bought their lot directly from the visionary builder himself, Tim Blixseth. They brought us to ski at the Yellowstone Club as their guests.

The photos have not been doctored. This is a big ski mountain with lots of high speed lifts, including many quad lifts with domes. The grooming of the runs is second to none, and it isn't unusual to be making fresh tracks in a groomed black diamond or intermediate run in the afternoon.

The Yellowstone Club has gradually added members through the years, and the ski resort facitilities, including several fantastic restaurants, are meticulously maintained and over-staffed with friendly, well-trained people. Because the sales come in multi-million dollar increments, they don't sweat the small stuff. There are always free cookies, coffee, cocoa, gourmet tea and other treats at the multiple restaurants on the mountain.

 

By the way, Big Sky, Montana, where the Yellowstone Club is located, also has other terrific mountains with relatively uncrowded slopes, especially compared with California resorts.