Lena Marie Schiffer gets teary-eyed when she thinks about her mainstage debut at the Red Ants Pants Music Festival in 2016. “It was truly a life-changing moment for me,” says the frontwoman for Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs, a Bozeman, Montana-based bluegrass band. “I...
Steven Rinella is only slightly distracted. He’s taking his youngest son to Chico Hot Springs in Montana’s Paradise Valley for his birthday, and there are details to resolve. “We have a deal with our kids,” says Rinella, whose personal life, for most readers, is secondary...
When a couple from the Midwest came to visit dear friends in Big Sky, Montana, to ring in the New Year in 1993, they had no idea how much the experience would change their lives. Both avid skiers (a sport they enjoyed with their then-school-aged...
When a Texas family stumbled upon a slopeside lot at the Yellowstone Club, a private residential community and ski area in Big Sky, Montana, they knew it was a keeper. Ideally situated for the ultimate ski-in/ski-out experience, the site fit the husband’s dream to have...
Twenty-five years ago, when a husband and wife from Los Angeles were traveling through the tiny town of Twin Bridges, Montana, they pulled up in front of a fly-fishing shop. There, the enthusiastic guide behind the counter told them about an iconic fishing lodge in...
An award-winning home that subtly casts its spell across a scenic meadow at the base of the Tetons — arguably Wyoming’s most storied mountain range — bears the name Five Shadows, derived from the number of buildings, or pavilions, that make up the residential compound....
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...