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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.…

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 New York City. In his twenties at the time, Gagliardi didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life, but did know he wasn’t going to spend the rest of it “working every day for a two-week vacation and a house in New Jersey.” Now forty-one, Gagliardi is an entrepreneur who owns four businesses in the valley—upscale cocktail lounge…

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 four. Today’s skis are certainly shorter than they were fifteen years ago, the first time I saw this improbable weakness—calling it a run is a bit more than it deserves—in a cliff band just south of The Cirque. But the boards strapped to my feet are still not short enough that turning is an option until I’m through the top…

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, Matt Mead. He once ran for Justice of the Peace, but today, Brad’s happier to talk about Wyoming Whiskey, the distillery he founded with Kate and fellow Jackson attorney David DeFazio, than politics. Four hours away in Kirby, Wyoming (pop. 92), Wyoming Whiskey is the first legal distillery in the state’s history—and the state’s first whiskey suitable for doing anything…

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 the anti-Vietnam War movement, to tutoring inner city black kids in French, to using animals to help rehabilitate criminals in the state prison. The daughter of Charles W. Engelhard Jr., a wealthy minerals industrialist, she says philanthropy is in her blood. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and a master’s of public administration 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 for Jackson Hole High School. Lawton likes this small-town vibe, and it’s a major reason the forty-eight-year-old moved from Jackson Market President for Wells Fargo to CEO of Bank of Jackson Hole one year ago. “I like the small community model,” he says. Lawton traces his roots in the valley to his grandfather, who moved here in 1938 to work…

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 bright-red top of a stop sign tells us we’re standing six feet above the roadway. We made the easy trek up the pass on Nordic skis, gliding along a sunlit path. I’ve been over Dunraven Pass before, but only in my car, and usually with my hands gripping the steering wheel, hoping not to hit a gaggle of tourists…

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 asked for him. But Jackson wasn’t quite ready to let the man known for fixing knees close up shop. Neither was I. Ten years earlier I tore my left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, as a high school tennis player. It’s a pop, a click, and a crunch; the burning sensation of ligaments separating inside—a pain you don’t forget. Now,…

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 a record eight times. And Fazio made headlines when he fashioned lush Shadow Creek near dry Las Vegas. One of Fazio’s latest projects, Shooting Star in Teton Village, is scheduled to open July 1. The architect and his team took 254 acres of flat pasture with no trees and created a golf course featuring five lakes, one pond, and something…