Looking back, the country got me first. Spending countless miles driving through the West was intoxicating; an obsession that only worsened after years of snowboarding remote backcountry slopes and fly fishing the world’s most beautiful rivers. Once you experience that type of recreational solitude, nothing...
Architecture KA Architecture Construction MDM Construction “This is not a mansion. It’s just a home,” says Tim Davis of the primary residence he and his wife, Chris, have created for themselves in Montana’s Sun West Ranch community. Indeed, while the 4,100-square-foot house measures up to living comfortably...
Water, no matter if it’s at the beach, running through a creek, or even in a puddle, is as fascinating to kids as it is to anglers. They’ll play in it all day long if you let them — splashing, digging holes, making channels. Joseph...
Tom Rosenbauer can get any uncle excited about a small stream. Alvin Dedeaux can teach you how to almost look cool when you’re chasing bass. Kelly Galloup can demonstrate knocking out a 10-inch trout with a 12-inch streamer. But to my knowledge, no fly-fishing personality...
Jim Bortz has been many things. He’s worked at a steel mill and on construction sites, repaired cable lines, led expeditions as a fishing guide, tended bar, and apprenticed with a taxidermist. He’s a lifelong sportsman and artist, self-taught in both fields. But these days,...
From any angle where Main Street meets Callender, the corner restaurant looks unassuming enough. Warm yellow light emanates from within as dusk falls. A handful of people in ski coats and Carhartts gather outside, waiting for the door to open at 5 o’clock. On the...
Sanctuary: Homes and Resorts is among ORO Editions’ latest books to explore inspired architecture and design. The book features 16 projects by de Reus Architects, in such locations as Hawaii, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. Each project explores the interplay between nature, craft, and the...
Over the past 40 years of photographing wildlife throughout the American West, I have always returned to the American buffalo, or bison. To me, the “buffs” are the very heart of the West. When I’m lucky enough to spend time with them, I feel like...
Last winter, temperatures plunged well below zero at my home in northwest Montana. Our regular outdoor thermometer stopped at minus 40, so when I trudged out through crystalline snow to feed hay to the horses, I checked the thermometer on the pickup and my husband’s...
For chef Michael Patria, arriving at Cortina felt like a kind of homecoming. The Northern Italian restaurant sits on the slopes of Lone Mountain in Big Sky, Montana, and Patria has enjoyed leading its kitchen, where he rekindles the traditions of his ancestors. Even though...