Fall/Winter 2009

Tips & Trends: Profiles

By Michael McCoy

Tips & Trends: Products

Game Plan

Architect + Builders + Money + Family = New House

by Melissa Moyer

A Site to Behold

When I went land shopping in Teton Valley, Idaho, more than a dozen years ago, my realtor understandably had trouble envisioning my dream property.

By Judy Allen

Faulty Reasoning

Peering through the windows of a plane as it descends into Jackson Hole, every last passenger can identify the land’s dominant trait: dramatic topography. The vast sage-covered plains are...

By Chris Moulder

Tapping Earth's Energy

A decade ago, when Stephen and Nancy Shibuya were heating their house with a wood-pellet stove, Nancy attended a Jackson home-and-building show...

By Rebecca Huntington

Dude Ranch Pancake Syrup

Harsh weather lined their faces and hard work gnarled their hands, but cowgirls were feminine women, capable and strong.

By Pattie Layser

Thumb Your Nose at Old Man Winter

Swirling outside like giddy moths, snowflakes easily erase memory of color but they can’t smother the verdant life in the garden window over the kitchen sink. Its productivity seems impossible,...

By Dina mishev

Garbage to Gold

In the Tetons, there’s no mistaking the changing of the seasons. It’s quite clear when the grass, struggling to stand up to the evening chill, no longer demands its weekly mowing...

By Virginia Grosse

Breathe Easy

It’s true that looks can deceive—especially in the case of a gorgeous new home.

On Memory’s Wings

A main street mainstay, Hungry Jack’s General Store in Wilson casually hosts a daily stream of busy locals and curious visitors.

By Macye Lavinder Maher

A Candle in the Wind

After paddling the Kongakut River through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I visited the writer who so aptly conveyed the wild grandeur of Alaska’s Far North, making others fall in love with...

By Pattie Layser

Feng Shui

Have you ever walked into a room and felt instantly at ease?

By Tatiana Elejalde

A Turn for the Better

Stroll through a modern ski shop and behold the wares...

By Rob Marin

Aces in the Hole

I can’t believe I came to Jackson Hole in a Mercedes, and I’m leaving in a bus,” one tourist lamented in the early 1950s. Her vehicle hadn’t broken down.

by Alexa Majors