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…

The Knee Guy Dr. Peter Rork has repaired thousands of ACLs in his years as a surgeon. BY KELSEY DAYTON Peter Rork wanted to retire. He was ready, and he had a plan: No more new patients, unless they specifically…

Shooting for the Stars New valley golf course slated to open July 1st. BY THOMAS DEWELL Tom Fazio helped redesign Augusta National Golf Club, home to the Masters Tournament, and Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, host to the U.S. Open…