SWEEP! HURRY HARD! OFF! The Bozeman Curling Club

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

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

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

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…

Memories of The Mountain

Pat Hill

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

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

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…

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

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…

Finding Empowerment

Kris Drummond

Why am I anxious? My brain is clogged, and the circle of people I’m sitting in feels cramped. It’s my first day of volunteering as a mentor for Big Sky Youth Empowerment and instead of showing up with presence and compassion like I…

Bobcat Football: Building a Team

Jack Thorsen

Montana State Football is on its biggest losing streak since 2013, when the team lost the last three Conference games. These last four games played this season have looked like opponents the Bobcats could take down easily with an offense led by two…

Our Wild Backyard: Protecting the Gallatin Range as Southwest Montana Grows

My job for the last 25 years has been to be an advocate for our wild places in a variety of ways. Sometimes it meant taking students into the bear-dominated backcountry of Alaska for the National Outdoor Leadership School, and most recently it means…

Fly Fishing in Pirate Territory

Confluence Films Presents Providence

Sarah Cairoli

Our little corner of Montana is considered by many to be the hub of fly fishing. Ardent anglers from all over the world make their pilgrimage to Bozeman for a shot at hooking the fish of their dreams. With an abundance of fishable water nearby, it…

Bobcat Football: On the Defense

Jack Thorsen

September was a pretty up and down month for the Montana State football program, starting with their game on September 1 versus the mountain west conference Idaho Vandals. A couple late mistakes in that game left Montana State falling 20-17…