On some mornings, after Guinevere Cummings finishes her cup of coffee, she’ll turn to her husband, Kevin, and say she’d like to go waterskiing. “And off we go,” Kevin says. “And the water is like glass.” Zipping around Echo Lake in Montana’s Flathead Valley, the...
For Ken and Sandra Moffet, it all started with the lot. Located in a secluded part of Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, the 3-acre parcel they found afforded incredible views of the Madison Range, including including Big Sky Resort’s iconic Lone Peak, Cedar, Pioneer,...
Twentieth-century architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright described his ideal home location as “the shining brow” of a hill. Indeed, he named his Wisconsin and Arizona homes (and adjoining studios and schools) “Taliesin,” the Welsh word for such a setting, having found in each of those...
Sometimes, the inspiration for a house emerges from the most unlikely of places. In the case of one particular family, and their custom home at Montana’s Whitefish Mountain Resort, an unfortunate accident necessitated certain constraints. But those constraints, in turn, provided the family with unexpected...
They say the kitchen is the heart of a home. So when a family from the East Coast decided to update and renovate their house in Big Sky, Montana’s Yellowstone Club, they chose that very room to focus on. The home — dubbed Southern Sky...
When contractor Justin Bowland, of Yellowstone Traditions, and Kipp Halvorsen, of Faure Halvorsen Architects, met up with a potential client on an undeveloped ranch property, they were just “kicking the dirt” as Bowland puts it. They were there to absorb the beauty of the open...
To the birds gliding above Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, one home might appear to be a cluster of small buildings — a somewhat anomalous sight. This is, however, an illusion accomplished by ingenious design. Sections of the 5,700-square-foot home’s roof are flat, covered...
When Max Baucus’ term as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China ended in 2017, he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, had a decision to make — though, it really wasn’t much of a conversation. “We wanted to live in Montana. We knew we wanted...
Considering the situation that each one of us was in at the time, floating through paradise hardly seemed like an apt description of the fishing trip we were on. All 13 of us on the river those two days had come face-to-face with our mortality....
A remarkable fish story is unfolding in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. And situated at 7,733 feet, also the largest high-elevation lake in North America, it’s here that native cutthroat trout are reclaiming their icy cold home waters after...