The Pursuit of Peace & Powder

Phil Knight

Silence. When was the last time you heard it? Do we even know what it is any more? To me, silence is not a lack of sound; it is the presence of only natural sound. The hush of falling snow, tickling your cheeks, making tiny tack tack sounds on your…

5 Tips for Fitness Success in the New Year

Campbell Gerrish

What is fitness? We could say that fitness is having a body with balanced muscular strength, healthy internal systems (heart, lungs, and nervous system), cardiovascular endurance, appropriate body weight, and a positive mental attitude. Achieving…

Days In The Hood

Sledding Bear Canyon

Fritz Shallah

Bozeman has long been a snow dog’s paradise. Winter, the reigning season in this mountain country, has produced a love of the frozen outdoors for generations. Long before “Cold Smoke” drifted its white foam behind the trails of…

Bobcat Football Interview: Taylor Sheridan

Jack Thorsen, Angie Ripple

Taylor Sheridan is a Senior at Montana State University, from Littleton, Colorado, he plays defensive end for the Bobcats. Taylor started his football career as a freshman at Bozeman high before moving to Littleton to continue on with his football…

Autumn On Windy Pass

More than almost any other state, Montana is a place that brings distinctive visual images to mind. Most of those connotations are ridiculously flattering, and justifiably so – but a few of them are a bit more perverse, and are enough to send…

Rx for Trails

EJ Porth

GVLT has started a pilot phase of the TrailsRx program, an innovative partnership with medical providers to encourage trail use among patients. Many of the people who could benefit most from outdoor physical activity have never done it before or feel…

Ice Ice Baby

Bozeman Hockey

Angie Ripple

It has been nine years since the 3,500-seat multi-purpose Valley Ice Garden was sold to Cardinal Distributing and renovated from the states most impressive indoor ice rink into a cold storage warehouse. Since the Ice Garden’s sale several local…

Being a Trail Ambassador

The College M is one of the most popular trailheads in the Gallatin Valley, and parking is at a premium this beautiful Saturday afternoon in July as I set up a Trail Ambassador table near the trailhead kiosk. As soon as I place a water dispenser and…

2015 Bobcat Football

The Recipe for Excitement

Jack Thorsen

2015 Montana State Bobcats football season gets underway September 3 at Bobcat Stadium. The Bobcats will play the Fort Lewis Sky Hawks under the lights. The last time the Bobcats met the Sky Hawks was 2010 and was coach Rob Ash’s fourth…

The Centenarian Club

Turning 100 years old

Phil Cameron

A Centenarian is a person who lives to be 100 years old. There are certain areas of the world that have higher populations of people who live to be 100, but there are people in all parts of the world who also live that long. Living to be 100 is no…

Arts & Crafts For Adults: Tying Flies

Jake Adelman

Summer is fading into fall and soon winter will be arriving in the valley. Anglers will begin chasing fall brown trout while watching cottonwoods morph into colorful works of art before littering the rivers with bright leaves in preparation for…

Exploring the Value of the Gallatin Range from Past ‘Til Present

Kim Hightower

Some 40 years ago, Anne Banks and her friends – a group of strong, wilderness-loving women – hiked to Hyalite Lake. Standing there in the serenity of the wild, they couldn’t have possibly known the number of wild souls the mountains…

Shooting the Big Sky

Novice filmmakers expertly shoot Montana’s recreational opportunities

Sarah Cairoli

Three years ago, Matt Redding and Joel Stevenson had never worked with a video camera or attempted to edit video footage. Now, the two long-time friends work together to shoot and produce a television show called Big Sky Outdoors. “We consulted…

High Temps Cool Waters

Jake Adelman

It’s a way of life in Montana--the winters are cold and the summers are hot. With this year’s sub-par snow pack and an early heat wave, we’ve already experienced some fishing restrictions on our local water. While the main rivers…