A few of our favorite summer things

Thanks to the miracle of the Tetons, the landscapes here can make the greenest photographer’s pictures—even taken on a phone!—look like coffee-table book material.

Try gravity riding to have a chairlift or car get you and your mountain bike to the top. Then, enjoy the down.

A warden for the Jackson Region of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department logs long hours and has a job description that extends well beyond checking hunting tags and fishing licenses.

A nonprofit lab in Jackson is closing in on treatments for ALS and Alzheimer’s.

Being pulled behind a dog or horse on skis is a sport. Whether it’s a serious sport or not is up to you.

As The Hole Deepens: It’s Not Easy Being Santa for Ski Kids

You can’t approach an elk on foot without scaring it (and you shouldn’t because approaching large wildlife is illegal and dangerous). But you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride into the middle of the herd wintering on the National Elk Refuge.

Artist-owned galleries add to Jackson Hole’s creative scene.

Tetonscapes: Glide On

Locals: Ellie Armstrong

Core strength training is an essential ingredient to keeping mountain athletes flexible and injury-free.

Four brewpubs in downtown Jackson have won awards for their beers. They’ve got food to match.

Try skiing up instead of taking the lift at Snow King.

You never know what wildlife you’ll meet when you get off the beaten path in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in winter, but you’re almost guaranteed to see few (if any) other people.

Ski touring, like other forms of mountain adventuring, can be an exciting way of seeing and connecting new and old places—just plan carefully and know your level of risk.

A Q&A with Pam Phillips