When you go skiing in Montana their is a good chance your going to run into some wildlife. This footage from Big Sky, off the Lone Peak Tram, shows a skier’s encounter a mountain goat closeup on the trail ahead of him.

“I paused, warming myself with awe,” Beau Blessing, a ski instructor, told ViralHog. “He was beautiful!…I didn’t want to scare him off, and kept still.”

Tim Konrad is the founder of Unofficial Networks and a passionate skier with over two decades of experience in the ski industry. In 2006, he launched the blog from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, evolving...