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As avalanche forecaster for the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Jamie Yount’s job is to predict when and where avalanches will happen ... and then trigger them.

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It’s not all downhill (skiing) here.

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Jackson’s bars aren’t always just about drinks

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 Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR). “I loved skiing right away,” says Tisi, who also loves coconut water, hates crabcakes, and is sponsored by Line Skis, Patagonia, Smith Optics, Full Tilt, and JHMR. At eight, he entered his first freeskiing competition. He won. At twelve, in 2011, Tisi caught the wider ski world’s attention by winning Grand Prize and a chance to…

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.” Earlier that same year, Kim Severson wrote the article “Young Idols with Cleavers Rule the Stage” in The New York Times. Severson, who has won four James Beard awards for her reporting, revealed how a new meat consciousness has led to the rise of the “rock-star butcher.” The rise (or revival) of artisan butchery here in the Tetons has certainly followed…

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 band that has packed the Silver Dollar Bar’s small dance floor with cowboys, faux cowboys, outdoor enthusiasts, skiers, granola heads, moneyed ranchers, and hippies. The booty shakers and swing dancers in tennis shoes, flips-flops, and penny loafers wag their tails in the middle while couples in boots three-step around the perimeter in a swirling mass. It’s like this every Tuesday…

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 a log home. After all, they were moving West from Chicago. Among the logs, the couple imagined large windows that would capture the spectacular views of the New Fork and a pond on the property and, in the distance, the Wind River Mountains. They hired Jackson-based Carney Logan Burke Architects to design their home. “We told them we wanted the…

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 backside of his leather gloves. Today, Reichert is the founder, president, brander, and quality-control supervisor of G2 Gloves (www.G2gloves.com). G2—there are two G’s in Gage, plus his son is named Griffon—sells no-frills, branded elkskin, deerskin, cowhide, and pigskin gloves in stores across the Mountain West and online around the world. JHMR’s bucking bronco was only the tip of the iceberg.…