Architecture Peter Zimmerman Architects Construction Lee Gilman Builders Interior Design Barbara Gisel Design [caption id="attachment_22890" align="aligncenter" width="526"] The kitchen is anchored by vertical stone tile that finds its counterbalance in oversized hardware on limed oak cabinets.[/caption] An architect can afford to be bold when he knows what he’s doing. But it might...
Architecture Reid Smith Architects Construction Big Sky Build Interior Design WRJ Interior Design Specialty Lumber Montana Reclaimed Lumber Poised on a ridge in the heart of the Yellowstone Club, a renowned enclave of ski-in, ski-out estates just west of Big Sky, Montana, a six-bedroom retreat created for an international couple tells a compelling...
Architecture Greg Matthews Studio Construction Lohss Construction Interior Design Urbaine Atelier After building a new home and guest house to share with family in Big Sky, Montana, what more could a couple do for their visiting children and grandchildren? How about buying a cabin on Hebgen Lake, an hour away? [caption id="attachment_23055" align="aligncenter"...
Architecture CLB Architects Construction Highline Partners Interior Design CLB Architects [caption id="attachment_22904" align="aligncenter" width="387"] The floating stairs offer a lightwell to the lower level game area and bar.[/caption] Snugged in among the lodgepole pines at Moonlight Basin in Big Sky, Montana, a home designed by CLB Architects serves as a basecamp where...
Architecture JLF Architects Construction Dovetail Construction Interior Design Sanctuary Interior Design Specialty Lumber Montana Reclaimed Lumber The couple were empty nesters living in northern California when they started looking at land in the Rockies. Although they had always dreamed of retiring to the mountains, when they did purchase a house outside of Bozeman,...
I avoid crowds, rather than seek them, when fly fishing. Yet there I was, standing on the timbered, rocky banks of the Yellowstone River for the trout opener in Yellowstone National Park. After my guide, Marty Mononi, had floated me down the upper South Fork...
The chief problem for the grasshopper, in terms of its status among fly fishers, is the mayfly. The mayfly — delicate, slender, standing quietly on a river, the soft peaks of its full wings angling high — is the insect that, to trout-stream fly fishers,...
When you drift down the Yellowstone in a wooden boat, you know it: The momentum is different. There’s a glide through the waves instead of a pull. On a July afternoon, it can smell like the trunk of a sun-warmed cedar. A wooden boat sounds...
We gaped from our cabin deck as thunder roared and lightning stung the high peaks of southwest Montana’s Gravelly and Madison ranges, 10,000-foot monoliths like Sphinx and Helmet. Rain strafed our roof — a deluge unseen in months — dousing intense July heat and wildfire...
With a nearly imperceptible disturbance of the water’s surface, the fly disappeared. I quickly and firmly — but without too much force — lifted my rod upward with one hand, while pulling in some line with the other. The line went taut and I could...