OK, here's what you hope for!

Why do you travel for 9 hours (drive, fly, fly, drive) for a 4 day 'long weekend' then travel 9 hours back? For skiing like this. Big Sky is beautiful any time, but when you get 10 - 15" of super light powder, add brilliant blue sunshine, and a few thousand happy souls (2 of whom are your favorite ski companions), you have a recipe for one of life's best kind of days. You can't count on getting this experience - whole trips have been taken with no new snow. But we have been very fortunate for almost all of our Big Sky trips of encountering great snow. But this was a day to be remembered. After many runs, we were nearly speechless. So, feeling speechless, I'll let the pictures do the talking.