I've personally never had myself checked for an avalanche beacon for hiking the A-Z chutes. Everything else I pretty much named is inbounds and not patroller-regulated. When the snowpack get's sketchy they probably require beacons for the A-Z chutes, but I myself have not had that problem in the times that I have been there. The ones I rattled off there definitely get's sugarcoated from advertisement and those seriously biased for Big Sky.
Of course there is plenty of terrain to ski other than Schlaushman's, I never said but since it was a large point brought up in this thread, I thought it would need to be addressed. I apologize for the confusion with you over that.
True point on the spread of locals visiting throughout the week, but you missed my point. Also don't throw out a 50% statistic just to make yourself sound smart, just saying "majority, or large part" will suffice. My point with the people is that the terrain (acres) to skier (population) ratio will largely be in favor of Big Sky most days of the year, regardless of how much snow dumped last night. I back this up with the equation below.
Big Sky: 5,000 acres / 2000 skiers = 2.5 skiers per acre.
Bridger Bowl: 2,000 acres / 2000 skiers = 1 skier per square acre
Of course this excludes backcountry so these numbers are off, but my point is made. Big sky needs to have 2 1/2 times the crowd of bridger for it to even it out. Don't hate me bro, hate the simple math involved.
Of course you only expressed your opinion on the matter, but that information you provided I believed was inaccurate. So I only expressed my own opinion on the matter.
Also the "haha" starting out your statement makes you look like an asshole, even on NS. Just my two cents.
