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...
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....
Hunger. It’s a word we use to describe our passions and appetites, and two of mine happen to be fly fishing for wild trout and dining on artfully crafted food. I was thus delighted to hear about a new place where I could indulge in...
“My favorite time of day to take photos is in the morning,” says West Yellowstone, Montana-based fly fisherman and photographer John Juracek, “which generally means a half hour or so before sunrise and continuing for an hour or so after sunrise. This can vary, of...
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Greek philosopher Heraclitus As The recipient of Bozeman Film Celebration’s 2020 BZN Best Documentary Short award, “God’s Country” follows retired U.S. Army veteran Jim Graham...