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Enjoy: Art

The Courtyard A hidden-in-plain-sight space offers the opportunity to see public art installations that range from the whimsical to the mechanical. //By Samantha Simma More than 100,000 audience members attend events in and around the Center for the Arts campus every year, and at the center of it all is an open-air courtyard measuring 30 by 28 feet, with glass walls on three sides. Within this courtyard, The Center hosts rotating art installments that can be seen from multiple vantage points: The Center conference room, the Theater Gallery hallway, the Glenwood Street entrance, and from the green space above connected…

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Enjoy: Taste of Jackson Hole

Dornans Pizza These pies are as fun to order as they are to eat. // By Sofia McGulick Is a summer visit to Grand Teton National Park really a visit if you don’t get pizza at Dornans and take it up to the restaurant’s rooftop deck to eat while enjoying the views? There are 10 restaurants inside GTNP, but it’s the Pizza & Pasta Company at Dornans, just outside the park’s main entrance at Moose, that is its most iconic eatery, mostly because of its pizzas, each of which are named after a Teton peak. “It would be easier for…

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Enjoy: JH Pantry

Sweet Cheeks Meats //By Sofia McGulick // photography By KATHRYN ZIESIG Once it hits 11 a.m. at Sweet Cheeks Meats, lunch is served. A post on the company’s Instagram story, (@sweetcheeksmeats) shows the day’s menu options. These could include the Brisket Burg, a pulled-pork sandwich, a Cubano, a grinder, or the Bliss (house-made ham, European butter, Dijon, and Swiss cheese on a 460 Bread baguette). Soon enough, a line of locals stretches out the door. “I’m looking at their lunch menu every day,” says Jason Bruni, who has been eating Sweet Cheeks sandwiches since the husband-and-wife team of Nick and…

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Enjoy: Food

Go Green  These salads are serious meals. //By Samantha Simma The West may be best known for its wild game and locally raised meats, and in Jackson Hole, salads stand by on menus as unsung heroes. Packed with fresh (and, in summer, often locally grown), vibrant ingredients, they can be as passionately composed as main courses. “The salad is not just a dish; it reflects our commitment to bringing people together through the universal language of food,” says Figs general manager Sadek Darwiche. Here are five local salads worthy of epicurean curiosity. When vetting a new menu item, Healthy Being…

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Local Life: Local Knowledge

Lesley Williams-Gomez The Bridger-Teton National Forest fire-prevention specialist works to help people understand the amazing force fire can be. // By Rachel Walker When Bridger-Teton National Forest fire-prevention specialist Lesley Williams-Gomez arrived in Wyoming to fight wildfires in 1994, she stepped into a career that bridged two of her passions: outdoor adventures and ecology. She would also forge new territory as one of the first female smokejumpers, leaping from airplanes into areas where wildland fires were burning to help battle the flames. These pursuits delivered equal parts adventure and public service while satisfying Williams-Gomez’s innate curiosity about the natural world.…

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Local Life: Books

Good Reads // By jim mahaffie RANCH-STYLE DESSERTS Wild Sugar: Seasonal Sweet Treats Inspired by the Mountain WestLindsey Johnson From her ranch in Freedom, Wyoming, Lindsey Johnson delivers this lifestyle cookbook of seasonal desserts and sweet treats, innovative table settings, and serving ideas. These are combined with fun stories of animal antics, holidays, her family’s adventures, and Wyoming life.   NATIONAL PARK ART Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National ParksDoug Leen As a young Park Service ranger, Doug Leen stumbled on an old poster of Grand Teton National Park in an abandoned barn in the…

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Feature: History

Bishish’s Enclosure Did Native Americans  stand on the summit of the Grand Teton centuries before the first party of white men? //By David Gonzales Near the summit of the Grand Teton, atop a rocky spur that forms the Grand’s west shoulder, is the most striking archaeological site in Grand Teton National Park. It’s a ring of sharp granite shards, each as large as a flat-screen TV, placed side-by-side to form a waist-high enclosure just large enough for one person to stretch out and lie in wait for game, or a sign. The Crow, or Apsáalooke, people call these prehistoric rock structures “fasting…

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Feature: Wildlife

Wild, Deadly, and Best Viewed from a  Distance Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks’ views are striking, but it’s often the wildlife that steals the show for the four million-plus visitors who flock to the region annually. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe in their midst—and avoid inadvertently harming wildlife yourself. //By Mike Koshmrl The 43-year-old Mississippi woman told National Park Service officials that she had just wanted a photo of herself with a bison in frame.  Standing alongside her daughter near the Fairy Falls trailhead in Yellowstone National Park, the visitor put her back to the shaggy brown…

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Feature: Easements

Preservation or Pricing Out? Do conservation easements protect open space and wildlife at the expense of the Jackson Hole community? //By Brigid Mander When Claire Fuller steps outside her home on the Huidekoper Ranch in Wilson, it’s as if she’s seeing a scene from Teton County’s past: This small, high-alpine farming operation, which supplies local markets and restaurants with quality produce, also has a smattering of open fields supporting a horse-boarding and haying operation. And a couple of greenhouses, sheds, and two modest homes flanked by aspen and pine forests round out the 140-acre property, home to Fuller, her husband,…

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Explore: Hike to Summits

Hike-to  High Points These four summits don’t require any technical climbing and do offer expansive views. // Story and photography By Dina Mishev There are about 134 named peaks in Grand Teton National Park—and the Tetons are only one of six mountain ranges easily accessible from Jackson Hole. You could spend a lifetime hiking and climbing to summits here and never do the same one twice. Here are four summits, presented in order from least to most challenging, that are among our favorites because they do not require rock climbing skills and do offer amazing views. (And for anyone unable…

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Explore: Targhee Cross-Country Riding

Flowy, Fun and Free The system of cross-country mountain biking trails at Grand Targhee is free to ride and also priceless. //By Molly Absolon It’s hard to reach consensus when you ask bikers to identify their favorite cross-country mountain bike trail at Grand Targhee Resort in Alta, Wyoming. With roughly 30 miles of rolling intermediate trails from which to choose, what’s best depends largely on what you want.  Scenic vistas? Buffalo Soldier takes you to an overlook with unparalleled views of Teton Canyon and the Grand. Wildflowers? They’re everywhere at Targhee, but some of the best trails for riding through fields…

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Explore: Waterfalls

Chasing Waterfalls What kind of waterfall experience are you looking for? // By Rachel Walker The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem was forged by powerful forces of nature, especially water. From frothing, raging rivers to winter snow that can be measured in feet—and then melts come spring and fills the drainages—water carves its way through cliffs and forests as it flows into rivers, lakes, and, eventually, the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. Combine that hydrologic phenomenon with the area’s dramatic geologic uplift, and you have prime conditions to create waterfalls. The GYE’s 15-plus million acres are home to several hundred.  Like snowflakes, every waterfall…

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Explore: Leave No Trace

Tread Lightly Let Leave No Trace principles guide you to recreating responsibly in and around Jackson Hole.  // By Bevin Wallace Leave No Trace and its principles are not new. “The organization has been around for 30 years, and the notion of ‘leave no trace’ even predates that,” says Mark Eller, foundation director of Leave No Trace. “It was an education program that the Forest Service and the National Park Service started together with partners like NOLS advising on what the principles might look like.” But what many hikers, skiers, and tourists might not realize is that the principles are…

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Explore: Public Art

JH Public Art Take an urban public art walk, and please sit on the swings and benches along the way—they’re the ultimate in functional art.  // By Sam Simma A brightly painted chairlift in downtown Jackson might seem random, but in this mountain town, there’s nothing nonsensical about turning retired chairlifts from Snow King Ski Area into public art. Each chair is fun to look at and also functions as either a bench or a swing. Largescale murals in downtown alleyways aren’t as obviously functional, but they share conservation themes while encouraging viewers to pause for a photo op.  Jackson’s…

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Vida Local: Contado Por Jessyca Valdez

Jessyca Valdez // Escrito por Lina Collado García Jessyca Valdez llegó por primera vez a Jackson en mayo de 2017 desde Toluca, México. Ella y su marido, Emmanuel, usaron todo su dinero para comprar unos boletos de ida a los Estados Unidos. “Nuestro objetivo principal era tener un techo seguro sobre nuestras cabezas y continuar con mis estudios universitarios en contabilidad y finanzas”, dice Valdez. El hermano de Emmanuel se había mudado a Jackson en el 2016. “Él primero nos habló sobre Jackson y nos pintó un panorama de encontrar un buen trabajo rodeado de la naturaleza y los animales”. La…

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Local Life| Anatomy Of

Teton Pass Parking // By Brigid Mander According to local backcountry skiing old timers—as in anyone who backcountry skied in the 1980s or earlier—the summit pull-out on Teton Pass was never crowded in winter. Because of the potential for avalanches, it wasn’t until April, maybe March, when warming temperatures made the snowpack more stable, that skiers ventured to this area. But, with improved ski-touring gear and avalanche-rescue equipment, this has changed. Today, five parking areas off of Wyoming Highway 22—only two of which are actual parking lots; the others are meant to be truck brake-check pullouts and/or snowplow turnarounds—that offer…

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Local Life | Books

Good Reads // By jim mahaffie WESTERN LEGENDS  Give Your Heart to the Hawks Win Blevins  This past July, Win Blevins passed away after an extraordinary lifetime, during which he wrote nearly 40 fiction and nonfiction books about Western lore, Native American leaders, lifestyle, and spirituality. Give Your Heart to the Hawks is a tribute to mountain men; written more than 50 years ago, it recently returned to The New York Times bestseller list.  FOR KIDS (AND EVERYONE)   Fire Shapes the World  Joanna Cooke Fire is scary but also transformative and really cool when you learn more about it.…

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Local Life | Local Knowledge

Brandon Harrison  He grew up working at his family’s iconic hotel in downtown Jackson. But for the past four years, Harrison hasn’t been working at the Rusty Parrot, but on the Rusty Parrot. // By jim mahaffie Brandon Harrison has a huge personal investment in the Rusty Parrot Lodge & Spa, which was one of Jackson Hole’s first luxury boutique hotels when it opened in 1990. The property was conceived of by his father, Ron Harrison, and Brandon was a part-timer on the construction crew that built it. A freshman at Jackson Hole High School at the time, Harrison was…

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Local Life| My Jackson Hole Life

Marc Hirschfield Marc Hirschfield’s first memories of Jackson Hole are of fly fishing on the Snake River.  // By Molly Absolon He was 6 years old. It was 1972, and the Hirschfield family—mom Berte, dad Alan, sister Laura, and brother Scott—were visiting from Westchester County, New York. They came to fish, float the Snake and camp along its banks, and stay at the Crescent H Ranch near Wilson. Today Crescent H Ranch is a subdivision, and the family’s favorite campsite—a special spot where they’d have fish fries on the beach—has been transformed into the Snake River Sporting Club. But these…

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Explore | As the Hole Deepens

To Selfie or not to Selfie? // By Tim Sandlin   // Illustration by Birgitta sif My granddaughter, Julie Anne Klapshaw, has been giving lessons at the Center for the Arts this month in preparation for the Winter Selfie Season. Her mother told me the classes are packed with micro-influencers, nano influencers, bloggers, thought leaders, a few celebrities, content creators, and skiers who couldn’t afford the GoPro class. Since I had no clue why anyone would find selfies cool or want to know the difference between doing it well or not well, I asked Julie Anne to meet me at…

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