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Going for the Gusto

Going for the Gusto

Nancy Bell-Johnstone came home with some serious loot in 1992, after participating in the XVI Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France. It was all packed up in a duffel bag. This isn’t about...

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

Pete Karns was one of the first Olympians to come out of the Jackson Hole Ski Club. Karns, who raced biathlon—that somewhat esoteric winter sport coupling cross-country skiing and target...

A Lion's Tale

A Lion's Tale

Lefty has cut his paw. The eight-year-old bloodhound leaves a bloody smudge in the snow every fourth step, but he’s a professional and he doesn’t let it deter him. He sounds like an old man...

Revved Up … and Up and Up

Revved Up … and Up and Up

One weekend a year, the noise resounding from the slopes of Snow King Mountain sounds like the inside of a nest filled with angry yellow jackets. The smell of exhaust and cigarette smoke stings...

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Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Hugging the limits of the ski resort, we slip along the orange ropes and boundary markers in the blinding white-on-white of a cloudy day on a snow-covered mountain. “Are you ready for this?”...

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Tetonscapes

Building Green, Saving Green

Building Green, Saving Green

Can you imagine taking a test with the lights off? Students at the new Davey Jackson Elementary School—a namesake of the early nineteenth-century mountain man...

Town Hill Downhill

Town Hill Downhill

The Jackson Town Downhill, which turns twenty-eight this March (although for two consecutive years it had to be cancelled due to lack of snow), is among the most anticipated events...

35 Years of  Skinny Skis

35 Years of Skinny Skis

Thirty-five years ago, valley native and cross-country ski racer Jeff Crabtree graduated from the University of Colorado and went to his first job interview with a Denver bank...

Fly Rod Convert

Fly Rod Convert

Every spring, Jackson Hole angler and lawyer Peter Moyer makes a pilgrimage to Homosassa, Florida, north of Tampa...

Sweet on Swans

Sweet on Swans

Ausan Patla is a “red shirt,” the nickname for Wyoming Game and Fish Department employees recognizable by that signature piece of their uniform...

In Pursuit of the Perfect Cup

In Pursuit of the Perfect Cup

In today’s Jackson Hole, caffeinators can get their jolts at one of several coffee shops, all locally owned and open for the winter. Each shop is an institution unto itself, where you meet your...

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Nightlife

Swing Time

Swing Time

Hobart steps away to change the cassette tape before she and Carlson add another piece to the dance: the turn. The instructing couple stops from the first motion of stepping in time...

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Getting Out

Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Hugging the limits of the ski resort, we slip along the orange ropes and boundary markers in the blinding white-on-white of a cloudy day on a snow-covered mountain. “Are you ready for this?”...

X Marks the Spot

X Marks the Spot

Situated east off Highway 26/89/191 about midway between the town of Jackson and Yellowstone National Park’s South Entrance, the Triangle X Ranch is a throwback to earlier days and simpler ways...

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On the Job

The Knee Guy

The Knee Guy

Peter Rork wanted to retire. He was ready, and he had a plan: No more new patients, unless they specifically asked for him. But Jackson wasn’t quite ready to let the man known for fixing knees...

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