Thanks to equipment advances and changes in resort policy, the backcountry is now more accessible than ever—but at what risk?

John Carney came to Wyoming as a young kid in a “reverse Beverly Hillbillies thing.”

Every ski town has its share of enviable jobs like ski patroller, heli guide, and night groomer. Then there are the revered jobs, demanding and performed by highly trained specialists who have honed their craft over decades

Daniel Tisi Big Mountain Breakthrough BY JEFF BURKE Daniel Tisi first stepped into ski boots at age four. His parents, who had just moved the family here from Virginia, enrolled Daniel and older brother Jackson in ski school at Jackson…

Meat Your Butcher Our area’s artisan butchers are a cut above the rest. BY SUE MUNCASTER In December 2009 Epicurious.com, the authoritative and award-winning digital voice of the food world, boldly predicted 2010 would be “The Year of the Butcher.”…

Dance the Night Away Newbie or old hand, there’s a place for you to kick up your heels cowboy-style. BY JAYME FEARY “Let’s burn it down, burn it down,” whines the lead singer for One Ton Pig, an outlaw Americana…

Mountain Modern An increasingly prominent architectural style takes its cues from local history and our landscape. BY MOLLY LOOMIS When Patty and Phil Washburn began planning their house on the New Fork River near Pinedale, they had vague visions of…

G2 Gloves Basic, burly, and branded BY JEFF BURKE Nine years ago, Forest “Gage” Reichert, a ski instructor at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) since 1992, borrowed a friend’s brander. He planted the resort’s iconic bucking bronco symbol on the…

Dom Gagliardi From Trader to Ski Bum to Entrepreneur BY ALLISON ARTHUR When Dom Gagliardi moved to Jackson Hole in 1996, he had never before been to Wyoming. He had just spent a year working on the commodities exchange in…

Steep & Deep Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s experts-only camp wants to take the scare out of you. BY DINA MISHEV There’s no mandatory air, but for twenty feet, the line below me is no more than three feet wide. Maybe…

Brad Mead From Wrangler to Whiskey BY DINA MISHEV An attorney—he shares a practice with wife Kate—and rancher, Brad Mead is the grandson of former U.S. Senator and Wyoming Governor Clifford Hansen, and the older brother of Wyoming’s current governor,…

Sophie Craighead A Path of Giving BY CARA RANK Sophie Craighead has spent the majority of her life volunteering, helping others. The sixty-one-year-old recalls always being involved with something, as far back as her teenage years in New Jersey, from…

Pete Lawton From Quarterback to Quarters BY CARA RANK People in a small town don’t forget much. For example, Pete Lawton’s name will forever be attached to quarterbacking for a state championship football team in 1981, throwing the winning pass…

Yurts in Yellowstone On the trail of the elusive three dog day BY JEANNETTE BONER We’re at the summit of Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park. Mount Washburn towers to the east and the snow is so deep that only…