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SATIRE Storage units! Finally, a development proposal everyone can agree on. Conveniently located adjacent to the top of the Hellroaring Chairlift, these units are perfect for keeping your options open for Big Mountain’s—ahem—variable terrain, like when you foolishly...
HEADWATERS Montana’s LAst Best Skies Since ancient times, humans have gazed upward at a sky sparkling with stars. Although over 80 percent of the world can no longer see the Milky Way or the Northern Lights due to light pollution, Montana still has many places...
Headwaters A Far cabin in the dark woods On hitch in a remote corner of Glacier National Park, a nostalgic trail dog reflects on the ranger era of Kishenehn station. The Kishenehn Cabin, 1932 BENJAMIN ALVA POLLEY I n the autumn of 2002, the wind trembled the...
Field Notes Adventures in motherhood with the Octagon bike trailer, a cage match on wheels Think you’re a tough adventurer? Try two and a half miles with six kids under 3. KATIE CANTRELL W hen our two girls were barely 1 and not-quite-3, my husband Nick brought home a...
Field Notes Fifty Classic Worst Climbs of North America: Mount Cleveland Think a 35-mile, 10,000 vertical-foot day hike sounds rough? Here’s how to make it even worse. MIKE BESTWICK I n 1979, Steve Roper and Allen Steck published the inspiring book Fifty Classic...
