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Winter 2011

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Mystery Of The High Lonesome

Mystery Of The High Lonesome

Four days before Christmas 2008, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep No. 753 stood just below the 11,100-foot summit of Prospectors Mountain as the temperature dropped to twenty-five degrees below zero...

Extreme Takeover

Extreme Takeover

Seen as a photograph or glimpsed on a computer screen, the enormous scale and steepness of the Bec de Rosses face in Verbier, Switzerland, is difficult to grasp...

Some Place Special

Some Place Special

It’s a warm afternoon in August, and Rick Bickner is offering a sample of one of his newest creations at Moo’s Gourmet Ice Cream. It’s light on the tongue, fruity, faintly perfumey. But what...

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Tetonscapes

35 Years of Jackson Hole Magazine

35 Years of Jackson Hole Magazine

The full-color, 100-plus-page magazine you’re holding in your hands wasn’t always so. In 1975, the thirty-two-page magazine, then called Jackson Hole and the Tetons, sold for seventy-five cents...

Helping Hands

Helping Hands

Teton Adaptive Sports is part laboratory, part social network, and part support group for its volunteers and clients—individuals like Steffan Freeman, who said the nonprofit organization has...

Layering Work

Layering Work

Unlike their coastal counterparts, conversations in Jackson rarely begin with “What do you do?” The answer is often too complicated, too variable. Because, for working folk, making ends meet...

Coney's Legacy

Coney's Legacy

What began as a way for Maria Hayashida to exercise her sled dogs and learn to ski, has become a yearly event that attracts more than a hundred participants and raises thousands for local...

Service And Family First

Service And Family First

Clarene Law’s life centers on service—from serving on the school board to the state legislature, and always in the hospitality industry. An Idaho native, she came to Jackson in 1959 at...

An Eye On The Sky

An Eye On The Sky

Five days a week, Jim Woodmency pads down the hall from his bedroom at 4 a.m. He grabs a cup of coffee and then walks a few more steps into his office, a small room in his Jackson home. From there,...

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On the Job

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

In twenty-five years, Bruce Tlougan has sold more than 1.5 million sandwiches at his New York City Sub Shop in downtown Jackson. While hundreds of restaurants have opened and closed here, the...

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Looking Back

It Started In A Bar

It Started In A Bar

In the 1980s, as the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort grew beyond its teenage years and its owners sought to make it a world-class destination, they struggled against a tangled roadblock of obstacles...

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As the Hole Deepens

The Return Of Super Skier

The Return Of Super Skier

Way back at the beginning of time when I was but a boy growing up in Duncan, Oklahoma, my parents bought an album by a group called the Chad Mitchell Trio. Music came on vinyl plates back then...

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Getting Out

A Lesson In Wild

A Lesson In Wild

When I signed up for a ranger-led snowshoe hike in Grand Teton National Park, I knew the fresh air and scenery would be invigorating. But I didn’t anticipate the welcome escape it would offer...

The Saint Of Ice

The Saint Of Ice

When people first started climbing mountains for adventure and challenge, it was often over a mix of rock and ice. Learning how to maneuver on ice became a necessity...

Being There

Being There

For a single male given to rough-and-tumble pursuits like backcountry skiing, mountain biking, and river running, taking a yoga class presented some obvious distractions. First, I lacked the proper...

Beyond Velveeta-Smothered Corn Chips

Beyond Velveeta-Smothered Corn Chips

It’s 9:30 a.m. on the Apres Vous chairlift. Two local women discuss an obviously important matter: Where to eat after they are done skiing for the day. The conversation reveals that the choices...

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Art Scene

Reimagining Fresh Tracks

Reimagining Fresh Tracks

Two lines carve a figure eight down the face of a slope. Patterns of snowshoe prints remain gleaming across a quiet meadow. Snow pac treads crisscross sidewalks. The heel-and-toe imprint of a...

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