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Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S.

Grant on March 1, 1872.

Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world.

The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of its most popular features.

It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant.

It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion.

Big Sky Resort is a 5,800-acre (2,300 ha) ski resort located in southwestern Montana in Madison County, an hour south of Bozeman via U.S. Highway 191 in Big Sky, Montana.

The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering.

Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.

Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain.

The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s.

The first practitioners include Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan, who invented the "windshield wiper" turn in the mid-1960s, and in 1967 made the first descents of slopes in the Swiss, French and Italian Alps that were previously considered impossible.

Saudan's 'first descent' in America was at Mt.

Hood March 3, 1971.

Early American practitioners include Bill Briggs, who descended Grand Teton on June 16, 1971.

The Frenchmen Patrick Vallençant, Jean-Marc Boivin and and the Italians and were among those who further developed the art and brought notoriety to the sport in the 1970s and 1980s.

Montana is a state in the Western region of the United States.

The state's name is derived from the Spanish word (mountain).

Montana has several nicknames, although none official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place".

Montana has a border with three Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, the only state to do so.

It also borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and Idaho to the west and southwest.

Montana is ranked 4th in size, but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States.

The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges.

Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state.

In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains.

The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands.