August 2026
Steve McGann
I like to call the Bridger Mountains Bozeman’s front yard. From the parking lot at the ‘M’ to the parking lot at Fairy Lake twenty miles north, there are always vehicles waiting for people to return from their Bridger adventures…
July 2026
How a Tragedy, a Cow Pasture, and One Man’s Determination Created One of Montana’s Most Important Soccer Facilities
By any measure, the story sounds impossible. Over 40 acres of undeveloped land, years of fundraising, environmental battles, countless volunteers, dozens of local businesses, and a memorial that one man refused to abandon. Today, Adam Bronken Soccer…
July 2026
Steve McGann
The young Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark from Fort Mandan to the Pacific Ocean and back has been part of our history for over two hundred years. The facts of her history have often been obscured by myth, speculation and fiction. There…
July 2026
Topher Sedlak
Photo by Topher Sedlak
There’s really no better place in the summer than Montana. Warm dry breezes, never muggy. The gold sun blazes in an immense vault of blue. Zero fire ants, poison oak, or poison sumac. Minimal mosquitoes. We’re…
June 2026
Topher Sedlak
The setting: The second half of May, all of June, and often the first week of July. The valley and foothills are intensely verdant. Above, acres of shining snow cling to the peaks. This is the season many of our ancestors, both Native and otherwise…
June 2026
Steve McGann
Hikers have a number of Super Bowls. Most of us who spend time on trails are aware of the long paths referred to as thru-hikes. The term refers to multi-day, usually multi-month hikes that follow defined designated trails in various sections of the…
June 2026
Colter Moreno
Summer in Bozeman doesn’t show up cleanly.It leaks in.
One day you’re still stepping around mud that hasn’t figured out whether it wants to dry or freeze again, and the next you’re sitting outside at 9 p.m., squinting into a…
May 2025
In a world where water is everywhere—from pools and lakes to family vacations at the beach and rivers across Montana—drowning remains a silent, preventable tragedy. Every year in the United States, more than 4,000 people die from…
May 2025
Simon Nathans
Bozeman’s winter may have been a dry one, but half an hour south and two thousand feet up, the Hyalite range was still teeming with snow in early March. It was then that I hiked the Blackmore Lake trail, a moderate five-mile trip to Hyalite…
May 2025
Steve McGann
Recently, while researching for an article about our Gallatin Valley Montana State Parks (Missouri Headwaters and Madison Buffalo Jump), I discovered that we have a brand new State Park located in Central Montana. Surely this called for an on the…
