Editors Note: Reflecting on 2016

Angie Ripple  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Soon we will be hanging a new calendar in the office and looking forward to a new year, but before we get too far into 2017 planning, resolution making and goal setting let’s reflect on what 2016 has allowed Bozeman Magazine to share with you…

Acupuncture: A promising, and local option to the opioid crisis

What's Your Beef?

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

In a Bozeman Daily Chronicle article published on October 21, 2016 Mike Cotter, U.S. attorney for the district of Montana, reminded us that Montana is not immune to the current national opioid crisis and expressed hope for developing solutions to the…

Cultivating Companionship: A Non-Profit’s Intent to Honor the Aged

Katie McGunagle  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

As the sky darkens and snows settle about us, many of us reach instinctively for ski poles and boots, snowboards and skates. We are used to the language of winter here in Montana, and we speak it well. Amidst the clamor for activity this season…

SWEEP! HURRY HARD! OFF! The Bozeman Curling Club

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

It all started one warm winter day at south side park. About 50 people gathered awkwardly on the ice, each of us with the same lack of experience, but eager with anticipation to begin, not knowing how we’d perform.  I had seen the…

Adolph Peterson: Jumping Skis, and the Development of Gallatin Valley Skiing

Rachel Phillips  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Adolf Pedersen was born in Lillehammer, Norway on November 15, 1900. He and his family immigrated in 1915, joining his uncle who had immigrated in 1911. At Ellis Island, immigration officials wrote “Adolph Peterson,” after hearing his…

Across The Blue Line - A Community Working Together To Raise The Ice Barn

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

For the past 2.5 years, I’ve had the honor and privilege to work for the Gallatin Ice Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to raising funds to expand refrigerated ice facilities in the Gallatin Valley. While we are a rather small…

Big Sky, Montana Couple’s Record Season: 144 Ski Days Together

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

By Day 144, Bob and Sylvia Torter had skied nearly every day of Big Sky Resort’s winter season, and that’s despite a fractured ankle, a bout with pneumonia and cancer treatment on the far side of the continent.The couple, who’ve…

December Bozeman Real Estate Report

Tim Ford  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

With the holiday season upon us, many people often ask about timing the market. It seems that many assume the holidays are the worst time of year to sell a home, but let’s take a look at the numbers. Since December sales datum is not complete…

Exude Love: Cateye Cafe

Cassi Miller  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Do you know that feeling when you just instantly click with someone you’ve never met before? There’s trepidation in going to a new place or meeting someone new, and if they are able to help in some way by cutting through that…

Memories of The Mountain

Pat Hill  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

My last full ski season began the winter after I graduated from high school. That was in 1976, back when Bridger Bowl only sported three chairlifts and a T-Bar. Back when it used to get cold—and stay that way awhile. Back when it used to…

OULA Studio Bozeman

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

When you first walk into the tucked away OULA Studio Bozeman, right across from Wild Crumb Bakery on Wallace, you will be greeted with hugs and huge smiles, top 40s music pumping from the studio, and chatty women of all ages, body types and walks of…

5 Top Fitness Tips for the New Year

Campbell Gerrish  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Get Real And Get Educated How many times have you thought about training, started something, and then it fizzled out? Is it frustrating? I know that for me, until I got a good education in what it means to train, how to move properly, it was not…

Keep Your Fires Burning

Phil Cameron  |   Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Living in Bozeman we get to enjoy some of the best winter activities with the best conditions found anywhere! Winter is a great time of year to be outside and ski, ice skate, ice climb, snowshoe, build a snowman, snow mobile, have a snowball fight…

Bozeman Ice Climbing Festival Celebrates Twenty years with clinics, evening celebrations and the Adventure Film Festival

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Twenty years ago ice climbing began to catch on in Bozeman’s Hyalite Canyon. Ice climbers were drawn to the collection of frozen waterfalls that lay just beyond the end of the Hyalite road. As the canyon gained more national and international…

Eagle’s Lodge New Years Eve Celebration With: Paige and The People’s Band

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Paige And The People’s Band are a new act, hitting the stage in 2016! However, members of Paige and The People’s Band have been, charming, captivating and blowing the collective minds of audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe for many…

Zoso - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience

Thu. Dec. 1st, 2016

Zoso - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience formed in 1995 to perform the most accurate and captivating Led Zeppelin live show since the real thing. For Zoso, it's much more than just being a tribute. It's about touching a golden era in music. Zoso…