Whenever I drive from Jackson to Hoback Canyon, the Snake River Canyon or beyond, I gaze with curiosity at Teton Mystery. I’ve always wondered what it is. The sign out front doesn’t help at all. A wonder of nature! and amazing! it exclaims, but that doesn’t tell me much. So, I finally decided to stop …
Imitating bears, becoming possessed by their spirit, and sometimes even becoming a bear are all part of Native American Bear Dances. Bear Dances were performed for many reasons: for the Yocuts it was a harvest rite, the Pueblo danced to celebrate the winter solstice, the Delaware renewed the world and the cycle of seasons through …
Im not hungry, but I eat rice cooked in tomato soup because I think I should. Its the first thing Ive eaten today save a donut from the gas station in Bozeman. I felt nauseous when I left my house this morning, I felt nauseous when I reached the North Fork trailhead, and I feel …
Getting cabin fever, yet? Check out some of these Bozeman-based companies for trips around the world. Backpacking through Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica last April, Mariann Van Den Elzen ran into three folks from the Bozeman/Big Sky area. The following week, in Puerto Viejo, two Missoulians on bikes stopped her to ask, Hey! Do …
Some people are really into canoeing. If youre one of them, or wish you were, pick up the 20th-anniversary edition of . Jacobson has gathered his friends together to produce a very thorough guide to canoeing northern rivers. This hefty tome to wilderness canoeing starts with how to research a river and ends with a …
There is no need to hike naked to a visitor center after your boat is capsized and pinned to a rock midriver. Your friends dont have to almost die from hypothermia crossing a lake because you chose to save the gear first. These things happened to Alan Kesselheim and you can learn from his mistakes …
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Overnighting at Forest Service cabins provides the feeling of being out in the backcountry while providing many of the comforts of home. Plus, with a lighter backpackno need to carry a stove, sleeping pad or other camping necessitiesits easy to go light and cover more miles, or to bring in gourmet food and libations to …
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Barry Lopez is a master of literary non-fiction, but even he occasionally has trouble finding the right words to describe the landscapes he so aptly writes about. Which is why he, along with managing editor, Debra Gwartney, has compiled a tome of evocative terms and their definitions that describe the American landscape. (Trinity University …
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There is nothing new about romanticizing the Old West. Even as the days of get along little doggies were beginning to wane, writers and artists were longing for years gone by. Caroline Lockhart was one of those writers, who, in the early part of the last century wrote tales of the Wild West, even when …
Grizzly bears have always been contentious, portrayed as man-killers and livestock-raiders; the embodiment of cruelty to some and wildness to others. Its apropos that at a time when courts are struggling with the legality of delisting the great bear from the Federal Endangered Species list, Mike Lapinski would write his book, , chronicling the hard …
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