May 2025
A Classic Big Sky Country Icon
Ken Walcheck
It was better than five decades ago when my wife and I stopped at a café in Kalispell, Montana to get a bite to eat. After finishing our meal, I asked if they had any blueberry pie in their pie selections. The waitress lifted her eyebrows, and…
May 2025
Steve McGann
“... Recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain... ”
These inspiring words from the 1964 Wilderness Act are a mantra for those who appreciate…
April 2025
A Most Unique Pincushion Resident With An Unsurpassed Defense Mechanism
Ken Walcheck
When Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed that the United States should, “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” he might have been describing the porcupine. If ever an animal served as an example of how to live in peace by being perpetually…
April 2025
Julia Yanker
Should I tell you the story about the time I got lost in the Badlands, a quarter mile from my car, stayed overnight in December, ending with search and rescue getting me out? Or maybe I should tell you the story about the time I almost died while…
March 2025
Peter Brancaccio
Was it really invented by a U.S. Congressman? During the war? On an island? And then named after the family dog? Yes. No. Yes. And, no.
Not too long ago, one of our neighbors was being pulled along by her two stout bulldogs. One of the dogs is named…
March 2025
Steve McGann
This opinion was contributed after our editorial deadline had passed, we included here in the Recreation section.
The United States of America is being dismantled in plain sight. The new administration has authorized unelected, sometimes even…
February 2025
Julia Yanker
I wasn’t rag-dolling anymore, but I was still sliding down the snowy slope at a high rate of speed. On my back. Headfirst. This was not how I had imagined this ski day would go. Nor would I have imagined how formative for my life path this…
February 2025
Jessica Cairoli
Faces pressed as close to the thick plexiglass as dared, longing to be close to the action but safe from its intensity, fans alternate between joyful cheering and quiet focus as the game unfolds before them. As the Bozeman Icedogs hockey team…
January 2025
Jeff Beyl
How was your day fishing?
Terrible!
Didn’t you have a good time?
No!
What? Is there such a thing as a bad day on the river? I have fished on days when the sun scorched down upon us and we sweat so much we looked like we had just gone…
January 2025
Angie Ripple
A Bozeman winter brings long, cold days and nights, and you’ll want some activities to keep you warm and busy until things thaw out. We’ve collected a handful of ideas to keep you moving and happy this winter.
Play in the SnowEmbrace the…
