Showdown Mountain, an independent ski area in the Little Belt Mountains 22 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs and 53 miles southeast of Great Falls, announced Friday that season pass holders from five yet-to-open ski areas can ski for free at Showdown until their ski area opens for the season.
The U.S. Forest Service is poised to allow limited use of a helicopter, motor vehicles and two motorized tools to remove the McKinley Lake Dam in the Rattlesnake Wilderness north of Missoula next summer.