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Chet Huntley, founder of Big Sky Resort. The resort was founded by Montana native Chet Huntley, the retired co-anchorman of The Huntley–Brinkley Report of NBC News. [4] [5] Big Sky opened in December 1973, with its main base area at an elevation of 7,510 ft (2,290 m) above sea level, on the eastern face of the 11,167-foot (3,404 m) Lone Mountain, the sixty-seventh highest mountain in Montana ...
The "Mountain" area of Big Sky is west of the "Meadow" area at a base elevation of about 7,400 feet (2,300 m). The community had two large ski resorts in the "Mountain" area: Big Sky Resort and Moonlight Basin. In October 2013, these resorts merged: both are now managed by Big Sky Resort, and both are alpine ski and golf resorts.
Moonlight Basin is a private club in southwestern Montana, located in the Madison Range of the Rocky Mountains in the resort village of Big Sky.It became part of Big Sky Resort in October 2013 when it, along with ski terrain within the Club at Spanish Peaks, were bought and merged into Big Sky Resort, making it one of the largest single ski resorts in the United States, with 5,750 acres (2,330 ...
Big Sky Colony is a Hutterite community [3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Glacier County, Montana, United States. It is in the northeastern part of the county, within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation , 36 miles (58 km) by road northwest of Cut Bank and 32 miles (51 km) northeast of Browning .
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area is a congressionally-designated wilderness area located in Western Montana region of the United States. It is named after Bob Marshall (1901–1939), an early forester in the federal government, conservationist, and co-founder of The Wilderness Society . [ 1 ]
Big Sky Airport has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,600 by 100 feet (2,316 x 30 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending July 21, 2019, the airport had 12,350 aircraft operations, an average of 34 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% air taxi, and <1% military.
The Great Falls orogeny, or the Big Sky orogeny (in reference to its last phase found in the Tobacco Root Mountains), was a mountain building event in the Proterozoic preserved in what is now Montana and northwestern Wyoming. It is one of several orogenis involved in the assembly of the proto-North American continent Laurentia.
The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps , but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.