Townsend Reed and Kyle Taylor explain the basics of "Freeride" skiing, and describe Townsend's progression from novice to National Junior Champion.

What's Up on Big Mountain for the 2025-26 ski season, including what's up with the weather outlook, with resort operations and events, within and around Whitefish and with the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation Freeride Team. Includes interviews with OpenSnow's Montana Forecaster Bob Ambrose, Whitefish Mountain Resort's Matt Gebo and Chad Sokol, Whitefish Chamber of Commerce E.D. Kevin Gartland and FVSEF Freeride Head Coach Kyle Taylor.

To help fuel the excitement for the new ski season, we decided to conjure up some memories from last season. To help us out, we recruited Whitefish Mountain Resort's President Nick Polumbus and Director of Sales and Marketing Matt Gebo, along with Whitefish Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kevin Gartland and OpenSnow.com's Montana forecaster Bob Ambrose. The result is a refreshingly candid, delightly informative and unexpectedly enmternatining synopsis of Whitefish Mountain Resort's aka Big Mountain's 2nd busiest season in 78 years of operation.