We love hot springs! We love them so much that we plan our road trips around places where we can soak in hot water. Maybe it’s because winters are long and cold here in Montana, but there is nothing better than hopping in a hot pool after cross-country skiing, building snow forts, or sledding through …
Some people really like to run. For them, three miles around the neighborhood isnt enough. A 10K is a warm-up. Even a 26 mile and 385 yard marathon is too short. These people are ultra-runners, and for them 30, 50 or 100 miles is the perfect distance for a run. Something happens when you go …
The huskies and Belgium shepherds are barking wildly and yelping with their noses to the sky as three girls, ages 9-12, hustle them out to the sled line. The dogs are anxious to run, anxious feel the wind in their fur and the ground slip by beneath their feet. So are the girls. Jenny Greger …
Meet three women guides. Guiding is big business in Gallatin and Park counties. Whether its rowing a driftboat as anglers cast imitation flies into the Yellowstone River or leading hikers on treks across distant mountain ranges on other continents, local entrepreneurs like to get paid to be outside doing what they love. More and more, …
As the raft bounced and bobbed through the umpteenth rapid of the day, I suddenly found myself in the air, then in the water beside the boat, then under the boat and popping up on the other side. My brother, Scott, leaned over the gunnels, grabbed my PFD and pulled me back in, saying, ”You …
As Chocolate poles his boat through the water around Swallow Caye a doughy manatee nose suddenly pokes through the water next to the boat. These are the creatures that sailors once mistook for mermaids? They’re cute, but hardly sexy. Lionel ”Chocolate” Heredia has been guiding manatee tours since 1968, but his enthusiasm for these animals …
Yellowstone is an amazing place, thermal features pop, gush and steam, bison and elk are just outside the car window, wolves and coyotes yip and howl into the night. But, Yellowstone can also be bison jam, after bear jam, after deer jam (thats what we call it when traffic gets held up looking at animals). …
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