Bozeman’s renovated Rialto theater reopens in January 2018, launching the historic theater’s first winter season in more than 10 years with a lineup of talent from around the country. Originally built in 1908 as a two-story storefront, then converted into a theater in 1924, the...
Whether you’re praying for snow or praying for snow to go away, winter festivals are a celebration of the season and a way to make the most of the cold weather. Here are some winteresque events throughout the Northern Rockies, designed to brighten winter spirits. Jan....
Great Northern Powder Guides, based just north of Whitefish, Montana, is the state’s only backcountry cat-skiing operation. Located on 20,000 acres of Stillwater State Forest, owners Kylanne and Jay Sandelin pay a percentage of their annual gross income to the state school system in exchange...
It’s gift-giving season, but no matter the time of year or the occasion, why not give friends and family something with local flair? For the outdoor enthusiast to the fireside snuggler, the home chef to the world traveler, here are a variety of ideas for...
"We live in the house of unspeakable gratitude in the city of hunger." — from Mystic Lake, The Beartooth Range by Shann Ray I would have first heard the name Ferch some 35 years ago, the summer we moved to Livingston, Montana. It was 1982 and I was 12....
I was 14 or 15 years old when my father, Burl Jones, created a wildlife museum. This was a couple of miles south of Livingston, Montana, off Highway 89. Dad was on his way to an applauded career as a bronze artist, and had just...
It’s been nearly a week of frigid, blustery weather — shoveling and re-shoveling, plowing and re-plowing, snow scuttling away and then coming back around, swirling up the benches on both sides of town and then down again, pushed by giant snorts of wind. It’s wrestling...
The story of dude ranching in the Rocky Mountain West is, in a way, the history of the contemporary West itself. Through the lens of ranching and recreation, you can see, in microcosm, aspects of what’s made the West such an iconic part of the...
When Alan Kallio was in high school, he was transfixed by an image of an ice boat he saw in National Geographic. Not long after, he was working in a lumber yard and able to gather enough pieces to build his own craft, basing it...
If you don’t believe Montana was once a land of skyscrapers, ask the wind. Decades ago, the infinite huff of the mountains and the high plains was raked by more skyscrapers than soar today in any major city. Everywhere across Montana they stood: tall, slope-shouldered, wooden...