 The ski area is about north of Glacier Park International Airport and south of the Canada–US border.Winter Sports, Inc. (WSI) formed in 1947 as a public company of community shareholders, opened The Big Mountain that It hosted the U.S. Alpine Championships in early March 1949, where future Olympic champion Andrea Mead of Vermont won all three women's titles at age sixteen.The mountain originally had a single T-bar, which was replaced by chairlifts installed in 1960, and 1968.