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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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Explore | Cross Country Skiing
The Season for Sliding Jackson Hole is known as an alpine skier’s winter wonderland, but we’ve also got hundreds of miles of trails for cross-country skiing. // By Brigid Mander Pine boughs laden with snow glint as the sun just touches the treetops above me. The only sounds are the schussing of my Nordic skis in the freshly groomed classic track, cheerful birdsong, and my red heeler’s paws crunching packed snow. I’m barely a few miles up Cache Creek, in the Bridger-Teton National Forest just east of downtown Jackson, and I have the world to myself this crisp winter morning.…
Explore | Custom Hats
Wearable Art A local woman-owned hattery makes contemporary Western hats that look good in Jackson Hole and beyond. // By Dina Mishev // photography By KATHRYN ZIESIG I’ve got a small head, at least in the literal sense. So says Sarah Kjorstad, the founder of and hat-maker at the custom hattery JW Bennett. After more than 25 years of living in Jackson Hole and fruitlessly searching for a Western hat that didn’t make me feel like I was playing dress-up as a cowgirl—I’m more comfortable on mountain summits than in a saddle—and that I did look okay in, I’ve…
Explore | Darwin Ranch
Winter in the Wild People make reservations a year in advance to spend a week of their summer at the remote Darwin Ranch, but it’s even more magical in winter. //By Dina Mishev //photography By Derek Stal After we ski across a wooden bridge spanning the Gros Ventre River and pick our way through willowy wetlands, but before we disappear into thick pine forest in search of Ouzel Falls, my husband, Derek, and I take off our backcountry skis to hike up to the base of one of the many red cliff bands that help make the Gros Ventre Mountains…
Feature | Groms
Little Rippers Kids that grow up skiing Jackson Hole are a different breed of mountain athlete. // by Dina Mishev and Brigid Mander grom [ghrom]: noun, plural: groms Shortened from the word grommet, a grom is a young kid who is a badass skier or snowboarder. Groms are usually super chill and positive and like to encourage their friends. Grom can be used for any gender. When he was five years old, Nate Pruzan, now 16, and his friend Matty Wilson skipped out on one of their regular group lessons at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Kids Ranch. They didn’t ditch…
Feature | Photo Gallery
Winter Wonderland Photographer Taylor Glenn ski-toured across Yellowstone’s southwestern corner. Sitting in the snow on the bank of the Bechler River, I struggle to dry my feet and wriggle my ski boots back on. Groaning in frustration, my adventure partner Taylor Phillips, “TP,” fights with me for elbow room as he pulls on his wool socks. Minutes earlier we came to an impassable spot on the south side of the canyon that forced us to take off our skis, boots, and socks and ford the river. Barefoot on our snowy, awkward perch, we look at each other and burst into…
