Slide-For-Life In The Beartooths

Julia Yanker  |   Sat. Feb. 1st, 2025

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…

A Puck Above the Rest: Icedogs

Jessica Cairoli  |   Sat. Feb. 1st, 2025

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…

Top 10 Montana Books

Steve McGann  |   Sat. Feb. 1st, 2025

There is a family joke that, to get me to pay attention to something, it is necessary to put it in a list of the best, the top ten, or the classic of whatever is being considered. This is probably true, though I will not click on a catalog of…