Flathead Pass The Northern Bridgers

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…

The Story of Adam Bronken Fields Part 1

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…

Sacajawea in the Gallatin Valley

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…

Stargazing in The Big Sky

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…

A Real Bozeman Summer

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…

Watching a Live Stream

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…

Long Trails

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…