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…

Parasite Brings Halt To Yellowstone River Activity

Pat Hill

Montana’s governor Steve Bullock flew over the upper Yellowstone in the Paradise Valley on August 23, four days after Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks shut the river down tight after learning of thousands of dead Whitefish in the waters of the…