THE SUN IS RISING IN THE SMALL TOWN OF DRIGGS, Idaho, and like most summer mornings in the Teton Valley, there’s a distinct chill in the air that will fade as the day progresses. Sleepy spectators wander from their cars, making their way across the...
I’VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO STAY AT MORE than two dozen Forest Service cabins around Montana since I moved here nearly 30 years ago. And I’ve stayed in many of them more than once, some for several days at a time, and during every season...
LAST YEAR, WRITER THOMAS MCGUANE UPDATED The Longest Silence — his 1999 collection of essays on trout, tarpon, and bonefish — by adding 15 new chapters, including a final one called “Shrink to Fit: Fly Fishing While Old.” In that essay, he recounts how he...
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON’S BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY has been a classic illustrated animal book for children since it was first published in 1899. Despite the factual-sounding title, the book is fiction; Seton invented the storyline for his bear-hero Wahb. But there was a real grizzly named...
ONE AUTUMN DAY, I WAS SITTING ON A RIDGE in the foothills of the Alaska Range glassing for caribou when I spotted a strange, dark form scampering across the tundra a hundred yards away. Despite my familiarity with wildlife in Alaska, I’d never seen anything...
PERCHED AT 8,300 FEET ON ANDESITE MOUNTAIN in Big Sky, Montana, and looking south toward Gallatin Canyon, “Broadside Sol,” as the architects dubbed it, offers a busy family of five the best of both worlds: easy access to world-class skiing and abundant sunshine. “Standing on the...
EMOTION. THAT’S NOT A WORD ONE EXPECTS to hear from the mouth of a builder while describing his work, but emotion — as in passion — is a key element of Jody Marler’s business ethos at Fishcamp Custom based in Livingston, Montana. As a result...
IT’S ONE THING TO CREATE A COMPOUND ON THE SPRAWLING acreage of a ranch. But it’s quite another to create a compound-like setting on a site that sits at the edge of a golf course. However, says John Lauman, of JLF Architects, in this case,...
MANY THINGS BECOME MORE BEAUTIFUL AFTER they break: a flat expanse of winter’s ice, for example, when it cracks in deference to spring’s welcomed warmth; or a song when its familiar verse-chorus-verse pattern is broken by a bridge. A new home nestled in Bozeman, Montana’s...
WHEN THEY DECIDED TO BUILD IN THE SMALL TOWN OF HAMILTON, Montana, 15 years ago, a busy couple — who split their time between Florida and Chicago — had to do most of the work with the local builder and interior designer from afar. Located...