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Winter Wonderland

Snowmobiling is an easy way to see winter in Yellowstone. No experience necessary. By Samantha Simma THE EARLY MORNING light crests the eastern tree line in Yellowstone National Park, transforming the snow-covered ground into a sea of sparkles. The park’s main thoroughfare from the south parallels the Lewis River, which seems to keep pace with our snowmobiles. From early November through May, Yellowstone’s roads close to regular traffic with the exception of a road between Mammoth Hot Springs and the community of Cooke City, Montana, just outside of Yellowstone’s northeast entrance. Snow accumulates on the 100-plus miles of closed roads, and, beginning…

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JH Magazine
December 30 2020

Locals: Sophia Tozzi

“I DEFINITELY SPEND more of my time awake at Snow King than anywhere else,” says seventeen-year-old Sophia Tozzi. “I couldn’t even guess how much time I’ve spent there over the years. So much though.” Tozzi, with the rest of the Jackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club (JHSSC), spends several hours five days a week between November and April training on Snow King. This year she is a high school senior and one of the top junior ski racers in the Mountain West. Last season was a breakthrough one for her, even though races in late March and April were cancelled…

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JH Magazine
December 28 2020

Stuck Up

Stickers offer a window into the Jackson Hole community and culture. By JH magazine staff // Photography by bradly j. boner “I THINK ONCE someone puts a sticker somewhere, it is just an invitation to put more there,” says graphic designer Walt Gerald, whose stickers celebrating the Teton County Library can be found around the valley (one is shown above). The biggest sticker repository in the valley might be the grain silo at the Snake River Brewery. The brewery has had this silo, which holds 60,000 pounds of Idaho-grown grain and is refilled about once a month, for twenty-six years. But…

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JH Magazine
December 28 2020

Photo Gallery: The Ghosts of Kelly’s Complicated Past

From flood to fire to condemnation, the attempted erasure of Kelly has been the town’s one constant. Photos and text by Ryan Dorgan IN 1978, DUNCAN Morrow, a National Park Service (NPS) spokesman, told the Jackson Hole News that there were two things giving him headaches. The first was “inholders”—some 32,000 people who owned private real estate within the boundaries of America’s national parks. The second headache Morrow offered up without hesitation: “Kelly, Wyoming.” At that time, Morrow’s two pains went hand-in-hand; the unassuming community of about one hundred people on the Gros Ventre River on Jackson Hole’s eastern flank was the center…

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JH Magazine
December 24 2020

Ten Best Ways to Make This Your Best Winter Vacation Ever

A decade ago, a winter vacation to Jackson Hole was a ski vacation. Nowadays, skiing is just one activity of many. We’re not saying you need to do all of these in order to have an amazing time here, just that, if you do, you’ll be gifting yourself the winter vacation of a lifetime. BY Lila Edythe 1. Get Wild with the Locals It might be the National Elk Refuge, but the 24,700-acre refuge just north of town is home to more than 300 species of animals, including bison, osprey, wolves, sage-grouse, mountain lions, bald eagles, and bighorn sheep. Bighorn…

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JH Magazine
December 21 2020

Tetonscapes: Going Big

Twenty-five athletes compete for the title of King or Queen of the valley’s most iconic (and terrifying) ski run. By Maggie Theodora CORBET’S COULOIR, A double black diamond run near the top of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) tram, requires skiers and snowboarders to jump off a vertical cornice at its start. It has long been a test piece among expert and extreme skiers across the country. Skiers come to Jackson specifically to ski Corbet’s—or to stand at the top, decide the drop looks too scary, and back away. In 2018, JHMR made Corbet’s iconic status official when it…

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JH Magazine
December 21 2020

Tetonscapes: Flights & Feathers

At the Jackson Hole Airport, meet an owl, falcon, eagle, or hawk while you wait for your luggage.

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JH Magazine
July 10 2020

Get with the Program

As recently as a decade ago, cocktails in Jackson Hole were mostly limited to the classics. Now inventive, well-crafted cocktails are the norm.

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JH Magazine
June 30 2020

High Point

Heading out to climb the Grand Teton isn’t always the adventure you expect.

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JH Magazine
June 23 2020

Locals: Morgan Jaouen

A Q&A with Morgan Jaouen

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JH Magazine
June 17 2020

Cellar Style

For wine collectors in Jackson Hole, wine cellars are extra difficult to engineer and build because of the area’s extreme climate and altitude. But local homeowners, architects, builders, and designers are up to the challenge.

Cutthroat Paradise: Jackson Hole

The Upper Snake watershed is the last, best, and largest watershed dominated by cutthroat trout remaining in the West, but the continuance of this status isn’t a given.

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JH Magazine
May 26 2020

Cowboy Science

A nonprofit lab in Jackson is closing in on treatments for ALS and Alzheimer’s.

Skijoring

Being pulled behind a dog or horse on skis is a sport. Whether it’s a serious sport or not is up to you.

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JH Magazine
February 19 2020

Hiding in Plain Sight

You can’t approach an elk on foot without scaring it (and you shouldn’t because approaching large wildlife is illegal and dangerous). But you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride into the middle of the herd wintering on the National Elk Refuge.