Eat Local A weekly online market makes buying local food easy. // By Sue Muncaster For decades, “local” food for Jacksonites meant frozen beef, potatoes, and garlic. Today though, dairy, meats, grains, packaged goods, and prepared food are produced locally…
Corbet’s Cabin Waffles // By Samantha Simma Atop Rendezvous Mountain, after a vertical climb of 4,139 feet in Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Aerial Tram, a wall of brisk winter air hits the faces of tram-goers as they disembark. Carried on…
Burgers Your Way Jackson Hole’s variety of restaurants means there’s a perfect hamburger for everyone. // by Rachel Walker There are few foods as synonymous with ski towns as the mighty hamburger, likely because even the most kitchen-averse ski bum can…
Bircher Barns Form meets function in these Gothic-style barns. // By Maggie Theodora // Photography by BRADLY J. BONER “They are just perfectly functional and elegant,” says John Carney, a principle architect at Prospect Studio, of the barns built…
Snowshoeing Here is the essential gear to make your snowshoeing adventure a success. // by Dina Mishev To keep your top half happy, pair Eddie Bauer’s High Route Grid Fleece 1/2-Zip with Voormi’s Access NXT vest beneath whatever mid- and outer…
Gloves Keep your hands comfortable whatever you’re doing. // by Maggie Theodora NATHAN REFLECTIVE CONVERTIBLE GLOVE/MITT Basics: Technically these lightweight gloves are for running, for which they are perfect, but the thermal mitt shield that can be easily deployed over the glove…
Breezy Johnson Look for this local ski racer at the Beijing Olympics. // As told by breezy johnson Last winter, Victor-based speed skier Breezy Johnson, who grew up ski racing with the Jackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club (JHSSC), had what…
Tim McLaurin Dancing daily on the Town Square for smiles. // By Melissa Thomasma If you drove past Jackson’s Town Square sometime during the past year, there’s a good chance you saw Tim McLaurin. Brandishing a sign that says, “Honk if…
Nancy Leon When a downhill skiing injury sends you in a different direction. // By lila Edythe After tearing her ACL five turns from the bottom of the ABC Chutes in Granite Canyon just outside the boundary of Jackson Hole…
Howdy Stranger // By Samantha Simma “HOWDY STRANGER YONDER IS JACKSON HOLE, THE LAST OF THE OLD WEST.” Signs bearing this have welcomed people to Jackson Hole since the mid-1930s. Local artist Grant “Tiny” Hagen partnered with local furniture craftsman…
Travis Rice // By Lila Edythe Travis Rice learned to ski about the time he learned to walk. His dad was on the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol. “I remember late afternoons at the ski patrol shacks up on the mountain…
Snow King’s Exhibition Run This ski run towers over downtown Jackson. // By Maggie Theodora Photo by Bradly J. Boner The origins of the name of Snow King’s black diamond Exhibition run have been lost to history, but it’s easy…
Read These // By jim mahaffie COLLECTED READINGSThe Grand Teton Reader Edited by Robert W. Righter The editor, a former professor of history at the University of Wyoming, chose 35 contributors covering geology, historic characters, settlement, and the park’s politically…
Frank Durbian The new(ish) manager of the National Elk Refuge appreciates working in one of the world’s most intact ecosystems and marvels at all of the species that call the 24,700-acre refuge home. There are more than 230 of them! // By Lila Edythe When…
// by tim sandlin // Illustrations by birgitta sif The summer of 2020 brought a veritable swarm of tourists to Yellowstone, which would have made for a slow Grand Prix de Yellowstone except for the missing hazard—tour buses. Those…
Leave the pavement (and traffic) behind in favor of riding on dirt and gravel roads. // TEXT and photos by Dina Mishev With more than a quarter of all roads—about one million miles—in the U.S. being unpaved, and a growing…
In rock climbing, the challenge and joy are in the journey rather than the destination. No experience required. // By Molly Absolon Rock climbing, at its most basic, is ascending cliffs, boulders, or artificial walls using one’s hands and feet. For…
A wooden canoe carries all the creature comforts for a scenic trip on one of YNP’s largest and most remote lakes. // Photography and story by Bradly J. Boner On a sunny July morning in Yellowstone National Park, my brother…
PHOTO BY BRADLY J. BONER Of course we don’t want to get ill or injured in the backcountry, but sometimes accidents (and blisters) happen. // By lila Edythe The pain in my left knee came out of nowhere. I hadn’t twisted…
Thousands of Sublette County cattle spend their summer grazing the Upper Green River high country, and cowboys still drive them nearly sixty miles to get there. // By Mike Koshmrl // Photography by ryan dorgan It’s 8 a.m. on…
