On most winter mornings, the parking lot at Last Chair Kitchen & Bar is full, even though the restaurant doesn’t open until 5 p.m. Since it’s on the way up to Whitefish Mountain Resort, skiers often use it as a carpool meet-up location during the...
“Snow is falling, you live in the mountains, your passion is skiing and snowboarding, you can’t hold back,” says Big Sky, Montana-based photographer Ryan Turner. “Once you become a lover of those kinds of snow sports, powder days become the ones you look forward to...
In this issue, Aaron Teasdale writes about photographer Lee Nye, who returned to his home state of Montana and tended bar in downtown Missoula in the early 1960s. While working there, he would ask the everyday folks who sat across from him — most of...
On an autumn day in 1968, near the town of Wilsall in Montana’s Shields River Valley, two construction workers were using a backhoe when they dug up what appeared to be a grave. It was later identified as an ancient burial site that contained the...
The elk checked into my yard one snowy winter evening as if they were entitled to one-night accommodations with all the benefits. At dawn, I discovered three snow-blanketed cows under my ponderosas, their ears idly monitoring the early morning quiet. As light filtered beneath the...
It’s not always easy to find the perfect gift for any season or reason, but you can’t go wrong with locally made products that offer not only quality craftsmanship, but also a tie to the places and activities we know and love in the Northern...
When COVID-19 hit last spring, ski resorts around the U.S. were forced to rapidly establish and enforce safety measures with little knowledge about the pandemic as a whole, and many ended up closing early. This year — with the ski industry’s best practices, and state...
The award-winning Town Enclosure Pavilion was erected in the park at the Center for the Arts in the heart of downtown Jackson Hole in 2018, as the result of a collaboration between the Jackson Hole Public Art organization and Jackson Hole’s Center for the Arts,...
A sequence of dude-ranch vacations in the Rockies can leave just about anyone yearning for their own place in the mountains. So when it happened to a family from the East Coast, the question was not why or when, but where would that home be? “We’d...
Last winter, during a family trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, we started the day by sitting in front of the fireplace in our hotel lobby and sipping steamy beverages before heading out to explore Grand Teton National Park on our cross-country skis. After a cozy...