28 Sep Hunting for Color
While many fall-foliage enthusiasts naturally gravitate to the fiery spectacle of hardwood forests in New England, if aesthetic horizons are broadened, portions of the Rocky Mountains offer a different impressive alternative. Accomplished landscape photographer James Kay has long adhered to this belief. Frequently focusing on...
16 Apr Mausefalle
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,...
04 Feb The Cutthroat Comeback
A remarkable fish story is unfolding in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. And situated at 7,733 feet, also the largest high-elevation lake in North America, it’s here that native cutthroat trout are reclaiming their icy cold home waters after...
04 Feb Spring Bounty Morels
“April is the cruelest month…” —T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” You can bet that poet T. S. Eliot never spent a winter in Montana. Never mind his dark allusions to death and rebirth — after all the many months of parkas and snowplows, April in...
22 Nov Big Red
On big powder days at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, no matter the day of the week, you can count on the fact that skiers and snowboarders will be in line for the tram even before the sun rises. Some hooting and hollering may be heard,...
29 Sep The Woods are Lovely
I have always loved the open prairie grasslands and coulees that form typical habitat for sharptails, Huns, and pheasants — Big Sky Country defined. An enormous swath of it lay spread out before me one cloudless September morning, running all the way north from the...
29 Sep Dig It: Rockhounding in the Northern Rockies
One of my favorite driving expeditions in Idaho is to follow the Salmon River from the Stanley Basin downstream to Challis. On this trip, the abundance of hot springs and mountain views are accompanied by an undeniable sense of nostalgia, a reminder of what the...
29 Sep Ram Mystique: The Allure of Wild Sheep
Once you’ve seen mountain sheep in their native habitat — the high passes above timberline that catch early snow and hold summer’s light — sheepless pastures seem profoundly empty. It’s the same with the scoured badlands, where bands of prairie bighorns, spooked by an intruder,...