Right after college in 2006, Crystal Wright moved back to her hometown of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and noticed that more women than she remembered seemed to be skiing hard and pushing their limits on the resort’s tough terrain. “Jackson is not an easy resort to...
With new terrain, new lifts, and environmental improvements, ski areas in the Northern Rockies continue to expand, improve, and upgrade, keeping skiers and snowboarders on their toes. Here’s a sample of the updates you can expect this season at a ski resort near you. [caption id="attachment_15062"...
Some love the snow, cold tempertures, and outdoor activities that winter brings, while others patiently wait it out by a warm fire, longing for the spring thaw. But the season’s live music and celebrations can offer an entertaining middle ground for all. Here are some...
When the Western landscape is covered in a blanket of snow, the temperatures plunge, sometimes into the negatives, and darkness comes about by late afternoon, it’s hard to imagine that a thriving wildlife population is out there surviving the hardships that winter brings. While some...
Autumn’s brown grass is a heart beating for winter, for spring that becomes summer, for summer that fades to autumn and autumn’s brown grass. Autumn’s brown grass is a heart beating for bears and wolves, their bodies moving, then stopping, then moving again across open miles of autumn’s brown grass. Autumn’s brown grass is a heart...
WHEN GEORGE BIRD Grinnell visited Glacier National Park in 1921, he was outraged when a stable manager insisted that the 72-year-old be accompanied by a guide on the park’s trails, the very ones he’d spent decades exploring and preserving. Grinnell wrote to Arno Cammerer, then...
Plenty Coups’ legacy in Big Horn County Just eight days before the terrible events on the Little Bighorn in June 1876, a young Crow chief crested the ridge above the Rosebud valley in Southeastern Montana. He and his warriors paused to admire the neat organization of...
A Texas family builds their ultimate Montana ski home It was 2004 when Debbie Canby’s husband, Robert, suggested Montana for a vacation. “I said, ‘Why would I want to go to Montana? I’m a city girl,” she recalls. Nevertheless, she agreed to a trip, and that...
IF YOU LIKE A CHALLENGE, TRY TO SPOT AND STALK THE ANIMAL WITH THE FASTEST HOOVES ON EARTH There are easier ways to kill a pronghorn antelope. The spot-and-stalk approach forces hunters to sneak up on the animals, mano a mano, typically in wide-open country, pitted against...
Making a living on the open range Gabrielle Thoreson grabs a lunch, fills a water bottle, and pockets her phone for the day. Rail thin, with a cascade of flaxen hair, she picks the right clothes for the weather and the right horse for the day’s...