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1 March 21-April 3, 2014
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Mar. 21-April 3, 2014
Volume 5 // Issue #6
Weekend Getaway:
Grand Targhee
GULO GULO
A closer look at the
elusive wolverine
New scholarship seeded for
Lone Peak High grads
Big Sky groups lay out plans at
second town hall meeting
BUSINESS PROFILE
Big Sky Shirt Co.
11th annual
Dummy Jump
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VOLUME 5, ISSUE NO. 6
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A “chopper” dummy sits at the ready at Big Sky Resort’s 2013 dummy jump. PHOTO BY LONNIE BALL
Calling all dummies!
It’s that time of year again at Big Sky Resort, when
the days are longer, the snow cornier and the jumps
dummy-er.
On Saturday, March 29, the 11th annual Dummy
Jump returns to the resort. It’s a contest of cunning,
skill and something that resembles an “organic life
form,” according to official rules.
Where else can you see a cow flying through the air
on skis?
Grab your pals, a bunch of cardboard, some glue and
perhaps some pyrotechnics and assemble a dummy
for the ages. Dummies, which must be manageable
by no more than two people, are judged on creativity, amplitude, form, sturdiness and best eruption
on impact.
“It’s a safe way to watch some great carnage and have
a lot of fun,” said Sheila Chapman, the resort’s public relations manager. “It’s that idea of getting some
friends together and seeing what they can build
with their imaginations.”
Andrew Schreiner, co-owner of Grizzly Outfitters in
Town Center, has the only dummy that’s competed
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Hundreds of drop points
surrounding Yellowstone
National Park
every year. Named Sweet Thing, Schreiner’s dummy
is made of steel and variations of her design have won
three years in the past 10, including the contest’s inaugural year in 2003.
Sweet Thing is getting a slight redesign this year,
including shortening her skis to 207 cm K2 SLCs,
Schreiner said. “She’s a little top heavy, but when she
hits, she’s legendary.”
The Dummy Jump is a time-honored mountain tradition, along with dirtbags, ditching work on pow days
and sipping après ski suds.
There’s still a month of great spring skiing to be had,
including Dirtbag Day, a Big Sky Resort ski patrol
fundraiser on Saturday, March 22.
Carve out some time as well on the 29th to head up
the hill, be ready for carnage, and launch a cardboard
Mystery Machine or perhaps a spaceship made of old
pallets. Come on out and take one for the dummies.
– Joseph T. O’Connor
P.S. Schreiner, watch out for the dark horse this
year.
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Section 1: News
Local News............................................5
Region................................................12
Montana.............................................14
Section 2: Business, Sports & Health
Gallery...........................................17
Business................................................20
Business Profile......................................23
Outlaw News........................................24
Sports..............................................27
Classifieds.........................................31
Health.........................................32
Section 3: Life, Land & Culture
Events................................................33
Calendar..............................................38
Entertainment...............................40
Fun......................................................45
Back 40..................................................47
Section 4: Outdoors &
Word from the Resorts
Weekend Getaway...........................48
Outdoors.............................................52
The Eddy Line......................................53
Word from the Resorts........................62
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Grand Targhee Resort
GULO GULO
A closer look at the
elusive wolverine
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New scholarship
seeded for Lone
Peak High grads
Big Sky groups
lay out plans
at second
town hall
meeting
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Tomorrow is the most
important thing in life.
Comes into us at midnight
very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives
and it puts itself in our
hands.
It hopes we've learnt
something from yesterday.
-John Wayne
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Letter: Rat poison kills
We have lived at 2710 Little Coyote
Road in Big Sky for 15 years. At last
count there were about 16 dogs residing on the stretch of Little Coyote from
the Spanish Peaks Condos to the Spur
road. There is now one less.
On Feb. 10, my youngest of two
Labs ingested a long-acting rodenticide
called Brodifacoum, verified by blood
tests done at the University of Michigan. Brodifacoum is commonly found
in the rat poisons you can buy in any
hardware store. She suffocated about
10 days after eating the poison in the
area on the west side of Little Coyote.
There was very little warning. To save
her, I would have had to watch her eat
it. Ultimately, it is my fault because I
lost track of her, and I will carry this
pain for a very long time.
I find it extremely hard to believe any
thinking person would be putting out
rat poison in areas that would be easily
accessible to dogs that might pass by.
I am asking residents and property
management companies to be aware of
such actions. If this had been a child,
the consequences would have been
dire. As it is, she was just a dog some
would say. But dogs are a big part of
people’s lives in Big Sky and we miss
her desperately.
-Ken Birgfeld, Big Sky
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March 21-April 3, 2014 5
Jack Creek Preserve Foundation debuts speaker series
Left: Dr. Robert Inman, Executive Director at the Craighead Institute, points to the great distances wolverines can travel. PHOTOS BY JOSEPH T. O’CONNOR
Right: Dinner at Lone Mountain Ranch preceded Inman’s wolverine presentation.
BY JOSEPH T. O’CONNOR
EXPLORE BIG SKY SENIOR EDITOR
BIG SKY – On a winter day
conducting wolverine research, Dr.
Robert Inman was pulling a deer leg
behind his snowmobile to use as bait,
when he happened upon another
snowmobiler.
“What are you doing, trolling for
grizzly bears?” the man asked.
“It was one of the funniest comments
I’ve ever heard,” said Inman at a
recent presentation at Lone Mountain
Ranch, his easy smile begetting
an accessible demeanor you might
not expect from one of the world’s
leading wolverine scientists.
Inman’s wolverine study, conducted
over the past 10 years in sub-ranges
around the Northern Rockies, was
the topic of his March 6 talk at an
event put on by Jack Creek Preserve
Foundation, a local conservation and
education group, and hosted by LMR.
Approximately 30 people attended
the first presentation in the
foundation’s speaker series, which
included a three-course dinner at the
ranch prior to Inman’s talk.
“I didn’t know squat compared to
what I learned at that meeting,” said
JCPF President and Co-Chair Jon
Fossel, who’s seen three wolverines
in the Spanish Peaks. “They’re
fascinating [animals]. The first one
I saw, I thought it was a little black
bear cub.”
Similar to the Mountains and Minds
Lecture Series that the now defunct
Big Sky Institute held in years past,
JCPF’s speaker series aims to pull
in talent from around the region
to educate the public about the
many wildlife species in southwest
Montana, and also about conservation
efforts in the area, according to Sara
Stephens, Executive Director for
JCPF.
Stephens hopes to attract a variety of
speakers, noting Gregg Treinish as
an example. Treinish is Founder and
Executive Director for Adventurers
and Scientists for Conservation,
a Bozeman-based nonprofit that
encourages and facilitates data
collection worldwide by outdoor
enthusiasts, for specific scientific
studies.
“[Our] larger hope is to do more
things for [both] adults and youth
while providing everyone access to
the preserve,” Stephens said. “We
want people to use that place for
hiking or camping or research. This is
just the beginning.”
Some of these speakers, according
to Fossel, could stem from a
collaboration with Montana State
University, wherein the preserve
offers MSU students and professors
use of the recently completed
Outdoor Education Center as a
teaching facility.
There are currently two MSU
students living in the education
center studying owls, Fossel said,
adding that the relationship has been
positive.
JCP is a 4,500-acre nonprofit
conservation area that functions
as a wildlife corridor between
two land tracts in the Lee Metcalf
Wilderness. The preserve is located
off Jack Creek Road, a private, gated
dirt road connecting Big Sky and
Madison Valley towns of Ennis and
McAllister.
While Fossel said communities on
both ends of the road have discussed
opening the code-accessed roadway
for years, he would like to keep it
closed for conservation reasons. But
he aims to dispel any concerns that
would-be visitors might have about
public access to the preserve.
“Just ask,” Fossel said. “Call up our
office, and we’ll get you a pass. We
have to find the balance between
education and conservation, but
there’s not a soul in Big Sky that
can’t come up for a visit.”
Aside from expanding the speaker
series, the next steps for Fossel and
his preserve include plans to connect the
South Jack Trail and the Spanish Peaks
Trail, both of which begin at the gate on
the Ennis side of Jack Creek Road.
talented speakers to work on the
other half of its agenda: education. If
it can yield talent such as Dr. Robert
Inman, its efforts may just pay off.
The Low Pass Trail, as the connector
project will be called, is a two-mile
abandoned U.S. Forest Service trail that
needs work to be passable, Fossel said.
He is writing grants to complete these
upgrades and hopes to eventually to put
up educational wildlife signs along the
trail.
“It was great to have the opportunity
to speak in front of Big Sky folks,”
Inman said. “It’s kind of a win-win
thing from our perspective. The room
was full and we had lots of good
questions, so I enjoyed it.”
While JCP wrangles and rallies funds
for conservation, it continues to seek
To request access to the Jack Creek
Road and to visit the preserve, call
(406) 995-7550.
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Big Sky Resort Tax Board holds second town hall meeting
Consultants present rec center plan
The proposed Big Sky Recreation Center, which could include an aquatics building with an adjacent recreation and fitness area as well as a separate events center.
RENDERING COURTESY OF CENTRE SKY ARCHITECTURE
BIG SKY – Three community groups
presented plans for the future during
the Big Sky Resort Tax Board’s town
hall meeting held on March 13 in
the Warren Miller Performing Arts
Center. This was the board’s second
public meeting in 2014.
The RTB gave Isaac Sports Group/
USAquatics, the Big Sky Chamber
of Commerce and Visit Big Sky each
15 minutes to present their various
outlines for a recreation center, more
affordable area housing, and future
marketing plans, respectively.
ISG and USAquatics, the consultants hired by the Big Sky Community Corp. to perform a recreation
center feasibility study, opened the
meeting with ISG President Stuart
Isaac quickly going over a PowerPoint presentation. BSCC used
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$20,000 in resort tax funding to pay
the consultants.
“Even with a population base of
2,400 and a seasonal base of [approximately] 10,000, with these
amenities, we feel this is a very
viable facility,” said Isaac, indicating
that the proposed rec center – comprised of an aquatics center including a field house, as well as an events
arena for ice hockey and rodeos –
would cost at least $29.6 million, if
Big Sky builds the center as ISG and
USAquatics suggest.
For the past nine months, the rec
center consultants have been in and
out of Big Sky, talking to community members and leaders, researching
similar communities, and looking at
numbers from the Big Sky medical
center research, according to BSCC
Executive Director Jessie Wiese.
“It’s [the consultants’] best guess
cost estimation based on what
information they’ve been given and
what they’ve researched to date,”
Wiese said in a later interview. “If
something happens along the way
that shows the events center doesn’t
need to be that big, it could change.”
It’s unclear where the funding for
the rec center would come from, and
according to Wiese, it could be in
the form of donations from Big Sky
organizations or individuals. BSCC
is currently waiting for the consultants’ final report, which should be
completed by April 1.
As it stands now, the proposed aquatics center would have a 25-yard, eightlane pool, as well as a water park with
slides, an aquatic climbing wall, and
space for aquatherapy, swim lessons
and training.
An adjacent recreation and fitness
center in the same building would
have a multi-purpose sport floor for
basketball, soccer, baseball and tennis,
and also an elevated running track, a
climbing wall, a weight room and an
aerobics and dance studio.
An 18,000-square-foot events center,
proposed as a separate facility, could
hold up to 2,500 spectators and would
host an ice rink in winter and a rodeo/
events area in summer.
Most important, according to both
ISG/USAquatics and BSCC, will be
bringing in an experienced group to
handle the project down the road.
“This facility will make it or not based
on a good professional management
team,” Isaac said.
BSCC is currently heading up the
project, and may or may not continue
to manage it.
“These types of facilities are typically
led by park districts,” Wiese said. “In
this situation it would make sense for
BSCC or a new nonprofit formed to
manage it. [Isaac] thinks it makes sense
for one group to see the project from
start to finish.”
The Big Sky Park District, an agency
governed by both Gallatin and Madison counties, was formed in 2011 to
complement the nonprofit BSCC.
A park district by definition can tax,
though when Big Sky’s district was
formed, an inter-local agreement
between the counties dictated that it is
a non-taxing district, Wiese added.
The park district could eventually take
on the management of the recreation
facility by applying for nonprofit
status. In the meantime, BSCC met on
March 21, after EBS went to press, to
determine next steps, which could include hiring a fourth BSCC employee
to manage the project.
Once the initial funding exists for
the rec center, Isaac said the facility
could pay for itself through membership collaborations with homeowners associations, hotels and area
resorts.
“We’re not reinventing the wheel
here,” Isaac answered during the
Q-and-A session that followed his
presentation. “We’ve seen these
[facilities] work, and tried to be very
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conservative in [our approach], and
are very confident in these numbers.”
According to ISG and USAquatics
research, individuals would not pay
more than $50 per month for memberships and families around $90 per
month.
“I’ve seen them through the whole
process, and I feel pretty good about
it,” Wiese said. “They used really
conservative numbers.”
Housing development plan update
Kitty Clemens, Executive Director
for the Big Sky Chamber of Commerce, took the stage next, giving an
update on the housing development
plan being performed by Denver,
Colo.-based consultants Economics
and Planning Systems.
The chamber hired EPS for $80,000
in resort tax dollars last October to
complete an area housing study.
The consultancy was not present at
the town hall meeting, but will return at the end of April with a draft
report, a housing and financing plan,
and implementation steps, Clemens
said.
EPS has conducted similar studies
in Aspen, Vail and Telluride, Colo.,
as well as Teton County, Wyo. and
Park City, Utah.
The initial housing report said the
area median income in Big Sky is
$58,369. Based on that income, an
affordable home was $181,000. The
average cost of a single-family home
was $738,000 in 2013.
Preliminary options, according
to the report, vary depending on
whether Big Sky remains unincorporated, expands its resort tax district,
or implements some sort of selfgoverning structure.
With no change in governance, EPS
suggested in its preliminary report
that Big Sky could set up a community land trust, which in the Rocky
Mountain West have typically
begun with $3-$5 million endowments, according to David Schwartz,
senior associate at EPS. This structure can also provide tax deductions
for charitable donations.
Another existing option is the use
of tax increment financing or TIF,
which refers to future mill levy
taxes that could be used to subsidize
current developments or improvements.
If Big Sky were to ask the Montana
Legislature to expand the resort tax
district authority, a dedicated sales
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tax structure could be implemented,
according to the study. The RTB
could designate .5 percent, or approximately $500,000 per year, of
its annual take to more affordable
housing.
ing techniques, VBS this winter saw
strong return on its investments. In
what Clemens called one of its most
successful approaches, VBS purchased four digital billboards in San
Francisco, Calif.
Should Big Sky become incorporated,
more options are available, according
to the report. An inclusionary housing
ordinance could be adopted, which
could designate between 20 and 35
percent of new homes built be made
affordable to those with lower to
middle class incomes.
San Franciscans sitting in traffic on
the Bay Bridge could see the billboards, which read “Our sick day,”
“Our down time,” and “Our rush
hour,” each depicting various elements of mountain life in southwest
Montana.
A commercial linkage strategy is
another option under an incorporated
government structure. This plan
would require those developing new
commercial properties in Big Sky
to pay fees, often based on square
footage, to support more affordable
residential options.
“The idea is to make the community
livable,” Clemens said.
Visit Big Sky marketing plan
Clemens remained on stage to present
the Visit Big Sky marketing campaign,
a $450,000 project funded with resort
tax dollars, for summer 2014 and
winter 2014-2015.
Using billboards, print media, digital media and search engine market-
This season, as of press time, skier
visits were up 25 percent over the
2012-2013 ski season at Big Sky
Resort, Clemens noted. The digital
marketing campaign for this winter season had netted 17.3 million
impressions yielding 56,400 clicks
through the winter website, she
added.
This summer, VBS plans to market
extensively through Yellowstone
Public Radio, and in Sunset, Audubon and Outside magazines, with
the bulk of its efforts again going
again to online, digital placement.
The main reason behind having a
strong marketing campaign, according to Clemens, is that other resort
destinations are working as hard as
ever to draw crowds. “The competition isn’t quitting,” she said.
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FOBSE opens high school scholarship fund
BY EMILY WOLFE
EXPLORE BIG SKY MANAGING EDITOR
BIG SKY – Starting in 2015, students
graduating from Lone Peak High
School will have access to post
secondary education scholarships
through the nonprofit Friends of Big
Sky Education. The organization aims
to help support students enrolling in
both college and technical schools.
Led by a local couple, Jerry and Anne
Marie Mistretta, FOBSE is seeding
startup funds for the new program
starting this spring.
Both former educators and school
administrators, the Mistrettas have
lived full time in Big Sky for 11 years.
After their son Gregory’s untimely
death in a car accident during his senior
year at the University of Connecticut,
they started a scholarship program
in honor of his memory at East Lyme
High School, in Connecticut, where
Greg graduated. In the two decades
since, the fund has awarded more than
$200,000 to college-bound youth who
exemplify Greg’s attributes, according
to information from the fund.
“Greg was hard working, studious,
athletic, caring, friendly, fun-loving
and funny,” explains the scholarship
materials. He graduated in the top
5 percent of his high school class,
earned Dean’s List at University of
Connecticut, and was a leader and an
athlete in high school.
In total, FOBSE and the Mistrettas
hope to raise and award $20,000
annually for scholarships. Some of that
money would be distributed through
a general fund, and some from specific
scholarships like the Gregory Scott
Mistretta Memorial Scholarship, which
will now give $1,000 annually to LPHS
graduates.
A committee of school staff and
community members without high
school age children will award the
scholarships, said Anne Marie, who
was superintendent of the school
district from 2005-2010, and was
instrumental in the process to build the
high school with FOBSE support.
There are hundreds of high school
2013 LPHS graduate Tucker Shea, pictured here, is attending Cornell University with help from Gallatin Canyon Women’s Club and Rotary Club of
Big Sky scholarships. Friends of Big Sky Education is seeding a new scholarship fund for Big Sky students starting this spring. PHOTO BY KELLY SHEA
scholarship funds around Montana,
and Big Sky currently already has two.
Sponsored by local service groups,
the Gallatin Canyon Women’s Club
and the Rotary Club of Big Sky, these
were adequate to this point, because
the graduating classes were so small,
said Anne Marie, who has also served
on the women’s club scholarship
committee.
“But we have large classes coming
up, and we felt that it was important
to convey to them that we think it’s
important they study beyond high
school,” she said, noting that FOBSE
hopes to promote “a culture of
scholarship” in the Big Sky community.
The driving force behind the birth
of Lone Peak High School, FOBSE
works to enhance everything related to
education in the community, according
board president Loren Bough, who is
also chairman of the Big Sky School
Board.
“What FOBSE does is we stand back,
and take a look at things we think the
community could do that we haven’t
done yet.”
Bough said he is currently recruiting
for this project.
“We would like to hear from people
who have interesting and innovative
scholarship ideas. As much as anything,
we are raising awareness for the need
for scholarship. We will raise some
money, but we would also like to idea
generate.”
The plan is to hold two fundraisers this
year to get the scholarship fund off
the ground, Jerry said. The first will
be a walk and dinner event on July 6,
and the second a music performance
and silent auction at the Warren Miller
Performing Arts Center this fall.
Because the scholarships will operate
under FOBSE, there will be no
administrative costs, Jerry said, so
every dollar raised will be put toward
the scholarships, and all donations are
tax deductible.
“The spirit of this is to make a
statement as a community that we
support our high school students,
and we want to see them further their
education,” Anne Marie said.
Donors who endow a scholarship:
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May name the scholarship (Examples are memorial testaments, company names, special recognitions)
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May designate the criteria to be followed in the scholarship award
•
Are able to use the FOBSE 501(c)(3)
status for tax deductions
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May determine annually their continued support of the scholarship
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Will control the public recognition of
their donation
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Will receive technical assistance
from FOBSE for the donation process
and description of scholarship, if
requested
Contact [email protected]
for more information.
George Macdonald Scholarship application deadline end of April
BY SHEILA CHAPMAN
ROTARY CLUB OF BIG SKY
BIG SKY – The local Rotary Club
is now accepting applications for its
10th Annual George Macdonald
Scholarship worth $2,000, to be
awarded to a Big Sky resident
attending college or a vocational
post-high school program. The
deadline for applying is April 30.
The criteria for the scholarship
will be based on financial need,
community service and academic
performance. A school transcript
and detailed description of
community service is required.
A committee of three Rotarians
will review each application, and a
winner will be announced by May
31. The scholarship will be awarded
directly to the student upon receipt
of a tuition bill.
All information provided to the
review committee will be kept
strictly confidential to the members
of that committee.
The George Macdonald Scholarship
is funded by community support,
through the Rotary Club of Big Sky’s
annual Gold Raffle and Auction held
each January.
Rotary Club of Big Sky includes
professionals and business leaders
from around the greater Big Sky area
who volunteer to promote world
understanding and peace. Rotary
has more than 31,000 clubs in more
than 165 countries and regions, and
encourages ethical standards by
carrying out humanitarian projects
to address issues such as poverty,
health, hunger, education and the
environment.
The Rotary Club of Big Sky
was formed in 2004 and has had
fundraising successes that have in
turn funded both community and
international projects including
improvements to the Big Sky
Community Park and Kircher
Park, bus shelters and emergency
telephones in Gallatin Canyon.
Rotary Club of Big Sky meets
Wednesdays at 5:30 at Buck’s T-4.
Big Sky residents interested in
applying for this scholarship can
email [email protected] for
more information, or contact a Big
Sky Rotarian.
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Terrific Kid of the Month/Student of the Month
Acceptance
BIG SKY – Big Sky School District honored four students for their acceptance
this February as part of its Student of the Month/Terrific Kids of the Month
program.
Teachers choose two ‘terrific kids’ from kindergarten through fifth grades
and two ‘students of the month’ in middle and high school, recognizing them
based on a different theme every month.
K-2 Terrific Kid of the Month
SecondgraderHeavenSummers-Snyder
The second grade teachers proudly
nominate Heaven Summers-Snyder
for the February theme of Acceptance.
Heaven is very
kind and is
always willing
to reach out and
help others. She
accepts all peers
as they are; she
doesn’t pass judgment. Instead
she is there to be
supportive of them and offer encouragement. She has been a class leader in
demonstrating how to welcome new
students into our learning community
and her happy and positive demeanor
are greatly appreciated and admired by
her teachers. Congratulations, Heaven!
3-5 Terrific Kid of the Month
Fifth grader Nehalem Manka
Nehalem not only is a great student, a
hard worker and a great friend to her
peers, but she has maintained a great
attitude considering her recent setbacks. Nehalem
is a competitive
skier who had
an extremely
bad accident this
winter in which
she broke her
femur. After a
major surgery, she is now confined to
crutches and cannot attend recess, P.E.
or any outdoor recreation. With all of
this, she has maintained an extremely
positive attitude and is moving forward
with a smile on her face.
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An announcement is made over the intercom, and the students are called into
the office to be congratulated. In addition, the K-5 honorees are rewarded with
a burger from the Corral, and the middle and high school students chosen get
pizza from Blue Moon Bakery.
Read the teachers’ praises for those honored below.
Ophir Middle School Student of the
Month
Eighth grader Abi Hogan
Abi Hogan is a very special eighth
grader who is accepting of everyone. She is kind
beyond her years
and can bring a
smile to everyone’s face. During
class, she blends
in with all the
students and is
especially good
when working
with the younger buddies. She can
sense when a student or teacher are
under the weather or having a bad
day and can make them feel better by
accepting them and their mood. She
has a positive outlook and is able to
put herself in another person’s shoes
and be that accepting individual. Abi
is very deserving and is a model for the
students at OMS.
Lone Peak High School Student of
the Month
10th grader Jonathan Dearth
A friendly smile and a kind word are
what you can expect when interacting
with Jonathan
Dearth. While
he recognizes the
differences among
his peers, he never
seems to negatively judge them. On
the other hand, he
warmly accepts
them and seeks
out their strengths. For these reasons,
he has been selected as LPHS student of
the month for the quality of acceptance.
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Avalanches kill five in Montana since Jan. 1
BY TYLER ALLEN
“Our snowpack is worse than last
year,” GNFAC Director Doug
Chabot told EBS on March 12 about
avalanche conditions in the advisory
area, noting there wasn’t a single
Montana avalanche fatality last
season. “We formed some weak layers
early in the season, and the second
factor is we’ve had lots of snow.”
EXPLORE BIG SKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Heavy snow in southwest Montana
during late February and early March
stressed a weak snowpack, resulting
in numerous skier and snowmobilertriggered slides.
On March 11, 18-year-old Zach
Junkermeier of Lake Lillian, Minn.
died in an avalanche near Cooke City.
Junkermeier was stopped on the northwest slope of Crown Butte when two
other snowmobilers in his party likely
triggered the slide, possibly remotely,
according to the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.
The center has issued five separate
avalanche warnings this season, more
than during any of the last 10 years,
Chabot said.
The avalanche was estimated to be 500
feet wide and 600 feet long.
Two snowmobilers triggered an avalanche on the south face of Mount Abundance,
north of Cooke City on March 16. It was a deep slab avalanche that broke 3-4 feet
deep, and injured and partially buried one rider. PHOTO COURTESY OF GNFAC
Cooke City Search and Rescue recovered Junkermeier’s body that evening
from beneath six feet of snow at the
toe of the slide, according to the Park
County Sherriff’s Department. Neither
the victim, nor anyone in his party, was
wearing an avalanche beacon.
burg, outside of the GNFAC forecast
area.
Maxwell lived in Missoula and was
a children’s ski coach at Discovery
Basin Ski Area in Anaconda. He was
skiing in the Flint Creek Range near
Altoona Lakes when he was killed.
The group was assessing the danger level by digging snow pits, and
Maxwell triggered the slide while
skiing from one snow pit location
to another, according to the West
This was the second avalanche fatality
in western Montana in three days, and
the fifth since Jan 1.
Two days earlier, on March 9, Bozeman native Peter Maxwell, 27, was
killed in an avalanche near Philips-
Central Montana Avalanche Center.
The local search and rescue team and
the sheriff’s department responded to
the scene.
There have been 23 avalanche deaths
in U.S. this season, as of press time
on March 19, and since Jan. 1, there
had been five fatalities in Montana.
Two of those occurred in the GNFAC
advisory area, both during avalanche
warnings.
Cooke City is an area of particular
concern in southwest Montana,
Chabot added, because of the
easy access snowmobilers have to
dangerous terrain. Two sledders
caused a deep slab avalanche on
Mount Abundance, north of Cooke
City, on March 15. One of them was
partially buried in the slide and was
helicoptered out with a broken leg.
“One of the hardest things for
people to understand is that places
like Cooke City, if you leave
the groomed trail you’re almost
always in avalanche terrain,” he
said. “You leave that groomed trail
and all bets are off.”
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Obituary: Peter Maxwell
MISSOULA – Peter Anton Maxwell
was born Aug. 11, 1986, in Corvallis,
Ore., to Anne and Bruce Maxwell.
Within an hour of his birth, his 4-yearold brother Tyler crawled up on the bed
to hold his new baby brother and our
family was complete.
Peter immediately filled our lives with
joy and excitement. He smiled at 6
weeks with those sparkly blue eyes and
never stopped until his death Monday,
March 10, 2014. Early on, he seemed
to have a “presence” about him. He
was exuberant, energetic and intensely
loving.
In Oregon, he spent the first three
years of his life learning the ways of
“Maxwell men.” He backpacked and
climbed tall mountains snuggled in
his father’s backpack, but soon toddled
up trails spurred on by M&Ms hidden
by fairies up ahead. He learned the
ways of rivers on marathon river trips,
easily napping in the bottom of the old
Coleman canoe.
His skiing adventures started as an
infant as he learned the feel of solid,
smooth turns nestled close to his
father’s heart. Later, of course, he
strived to keep up with Tyler even
learning how to “tuck” – although that
probably wasn’t necessary since he was
only 3 and already close to the ground.
On the coast, Peter chased crabs, dug
for clams, and his vivid imagination
and curiosity kept him busy for hours.
were full of mischievous adventures
overseen by Grandma and Grandpa
Soko, and Aunt Betty B.
The family moved to St. Paul, Minn.,
where Peter’s unique personality
continued to unfold as did his bond
with his brother. Exploring the
wonders of museums, live theater,
art and music seemed to spark
Peter’s imagination. He questioned
everything and would not stop until
he had an answer sometimes for days
on end.
Oh, the stories we have of Peter and his
best friend and cousin, Ben. Together
they terrorized the other cousins,
laid secret plans, and presented the
infamous “magic shows.” They went
to “horse camp” in the Bob Marshall
Wilderness, completed NOLS
wilderness school in the Wind River
Range and rafted the main Salmon
River. They communicated with a
glance and a giggle, always knowing
what mischief the other was thinking
and never divulging their secrets.
When he was 4, the family enjoyed
a week in the boundary waters in
northern Minnesota. Peter was
curious yet a little concerned when
the howling of wolves filled the
night. He loved all the animals in the
zoo across the street. He especially liked
Sparky, the seal that would talk to him
in the microphone.
The family moved back to their beloved
Montana and Peter started kindergarten
at Irving School in Bozeman. His
unique ability to make deep, enduring
friendships started at this time. Yearly,
we looked forward to parent-teacher
conferences when “outside sources”
confirmed we had an engaging child
with a unique ability to connect with
all of his peers, be sensitive to those
who were struggling, and in his quiet
manner was always a leader.
In Montana, he was surrounded by the
love of grandparents, aunts, uncles and
cousins. He enjoyed alpine ski racing,
he was an accomplished kayaker and
could be found with his brother Tyler
“playing” on river waves at high water.
He enjoyed the family traditions of
hunting, fishing, goofy hockey games
and skateboarding.
Childhood was rich with activities
and adventures. He became an
accomplished guitarist. His Grandma
and Grandpa Maxwell taught him to
pan for rubies, sapphires and gold and
to challenge his mind with card and
board games. Summers at Flathead Lake
His junior year of high school, Peter
had surgery on his foot. Skiing was
out for the winter so he went to the
Galapagos Islands with a group of
students and studied green sea turtle
nesting biology. He graduated from
Bozeman High School in June 2005
and to no one’s surprise, was voted the
senior with the best smile and best
eyes.
Peter attended the University of
Montana. His freshman year, he met
the love of his life, Madeleine Hoyt.
This Cleveland girl stole his heart.
They soon became inseparable; their
love was palpable. Madeleine soon
learned to love everything Peter loved.
Her athletic abilities allowed her to
ski the steep and deep with him, he
taught her to roll a kayak and fly fish.
Madeleine introduced Peter to four
wheeling, motocross and even ice
skating. Madeleine and Peter spent
seven wonderful years together, and
looked forward to spending the rest
of their lives together. They lived in
Missoula with their black lab, Gary.
Madeleine’s Cleveland family and
friends became a part of Peter’s life. We
are so grateful for their enduring love
and support.
Peter graduated from UM in business
marketing. Before finishing his
degree, he started a landscaping
business followed by owning and
running Garden City Recycling. An
entrepreneur at heart, he established a
firm foothold in the Missoula business
community, and won numerous
business awards. He became an avid
surfer on the Clark Fork River and
could be found most afternoons
perfecting his riding skills.
During this time, he learned that
he had another wonderful ability
following in his brother’s footsteps
to teach and connect with children,
especially those who loved to “ski fast.”
He shared that passion at Montana
Snowbowl and most recently at
Discovery Basin coaching their ski
teams. In truth, he created a presence
and reputation with ski racers and
coaches over the entire Northern
Division of USSA. His humor, antics
and ever-present ability to have FUN
attracted kids to him like the Pied Piper
and “Peter” stories abound among the
kids.
Peter died in an avalanche while
backcountry skiing in a remote area on
March 10, 2014. Peter died doing what
he loved most and was surrounded
by close friends. Peter is survived by
his incredible girlfriend and constant
companion, Madeleine Hoyt; his dog,
Gary; his brother Tyler (Bozeman) with
whom he had an incredibly special
bond; his mother Anne and father
Bruce (Bozeman); grandmother Barbara
Sokoloski (Missoula); Uncle Don and
Aunt Michelle Sokoloski (Missoula)
and their children Ben, Lauren and
Maddy; Uncle John Sokoloski (San
Diego); Uncle Joe Murphy and Aunt
Deb Bakke (Helena) and their children
Kiefer and Jamul Hahn; and Uncle
George Murphy and Aunt Arlene
(Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and their children
Nathan and Kim.
There was a celebration of Peter’s
life at on March 18, in Missoula. In
lieu of flowers, please donate to the
Peter Maxwell Memorial Fund (First
Interstate Bank) to be distributed to
development of the Max Wave and a
WSSA Northern Division Scholarship.
Please post memories on Facebook
(Remembering Peter Maxwell page).
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DEQ and DPHHS offer flood safety and cleanup advice
Flooding can cause health risks in wells and homes
BY LISA PETERSON
MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
have compiled a list of tips for dealing with flood
conditions. Here are a few:
• Follow this advice: “When in doubt, throw it
out.”
HELENA – Montana’s recent heavy snow falls,
combined with frozen ground and a rapid warm up
in temperatures, have prompted flood advisories to
be issued around the state.
• If there is time before flooding, move any
chemicals or hazardous materials above flood level
to lessen the chance of spill and contamination.
Secure any above ground storage tanks.
• Don’t enter a building that has been flooded until
there are no doubts about its safety.
As such, Gov. Steve Bullock has declared a
flood emergency for the state of Montana. The
declaration allows Bullock to mobilize state
resources and the Montana National Guard, and
also expend funds to meet the contingencies and
needs that may arise from the emergency.
• If the power is off so you can’t disinfect your
flooded well, bottled water may be the best
alternative. If it isn’t available, water used for
drinking, cooking or washing should be treated
in one of two ways: 1) boil it for five minutes and
then store in a clean container, or 2) mix five drops
of household bleach into every quart and let stand
at least 5 minutes (preferably 30 minutes to an
hour) before using.
Flooding can pose a special hazard to people who
use private wells for their drinking water both
during and after flood events, according to the
Montana Departments of Environmental Quality.
Floodwater can contaminate private wells, springs
and cisterns, and it’s up to the owner to make sure
the water is safe. DEQ warns not to use water from
a flooded well for any purpose until talking with
health authorities. After a flood, residents should
have wells disinfected and tested to make sure
they’re safe.
For those whose homes are affected by floods,
the DEQ and Public Health and Human Services
• Launder flooded clothing and bedding using a
disinfectant such as bleach.
• Discard mattresses and stuffed toys that have
been soaked.
• Steam-clean all carpeting that has been soaked.
• Wear protective clothing such as rubber boots
and gloves while cleaning up debris and scrubbing
flood-damaged interiors and furniture.
• Discard food that has been exposed to
floodwaters. Sealed metal cans and sealed packages
with intact protective outer coverings may be
salvaged, but they must be carefully cleaned and
disinfected before opening.
• Monitor the radio and other media for current
information, including travel restrictions.
• Discard refrigerated and frozen food if the power
has been out for more than six hours or the food
has been warmed to above 45 F for more than three
hours.
Bullock preserves $2 million in SNAP benefits
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR STEVE BULLOCK
HELENA – Gov. Steve Bullock announced on
March 12 that he has taken action to prevent over
$2 million in cuts to Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Programs benefits for more than 2,000
low-income Montana families. The cuts in food assistance would have happened
due to changes in the federal Farm Bill that raised
the threshold of energy assistance that a household
must receive in order to receive additional SNAP
benefits. Bullock increased nominal payments
from the Low Income Energy Assistance Program
to eligible participants to meet the increased
threshold.
“Making this change is a common-sense way to
keep food on the tables of Montana families, while
ensuring our economy doesn’t take a hit from
these cuts,” Bullock said. “With this action, we’re
sending a strong message that Montana seniors and
people with disabilities shouldn’t have to choose
between feeding their families and paying for
medication or other necessities.”
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assistance annually to
Montana families, while only costing the state
approximately $24,000 more per year.
“Without this action, these cuts would have
caused unnecessary hardship for working parents,
children, seniors and veterans who already
struggle with food insecurity,” said Gayle Gifford,
chief executive officer of the Montana Food Bank
Network.
According to the Montana Department of
Public Health and Human Services, there are
approximately 2,172 households statewide that
would have seen a reduction in assistance due to
changes in the new Farm Bill.
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Skyline bus system grows in popularity
SKYLINE BUS SYSTEM
On Feb. 18, the Skyline bus system
hit a major mile mark: It boarded its
one-millionth rider. Of those, around
700,000 rides have been in Big Sky,
and another 350,000 rides between
Bozeman and Big Sky.
In 2006, Skyline’s first year of
service, the bus service gave over
108,000 rides. That number was
more than double that of the previous
Snow Express transit service. The
growth has continued and, as of
February 2014, Skyline had provided
1,018,305 rides with just its Big Sky
and Bozeman services. Including
its vanpool and West Yellowstone
services, it has provide around
1,050,000 rides.
“Public transportation is a vital
component for economic health and
a community grows as a result,” said
Meg O’Leary, former Chairman of
the Big Sky Transportation District
and current Director of the Montana
Department of Commerce. “Skyline
is a remarkable service we can all be
proud of, and wouldn’t be the strong
service if not for the committed and
reliable riders.”
Skyline is a year-round transportation
service, operating five to seven days
a week depending on the season.
Several distinct Skyline routes run
throughout Big Sky, and the Link
Express runs between Big Sky and
Bozeman. Skyline and its operating
partner Karst Stage also work together
to provide a daily shuttle to Big Sky
and West Yellowstone from the
Bozeman and Belgrade areas and the
airport.
Skyline provides access to the Big Sky
area for those who may not otherwise
be able to access the area, or for those
who wish to save money and take the
bus instead of driving.
“Moving workers and recreationists
safely from Bozeman to the
mountain as well as within the Big
Sky community saves roads, fuel
and lives,” said Madison County
Commissioner Dave Schulz.
Madison County helps fund the
Skyline system, and while many
of the riders aren’t from Madison
County, Schulz noted that Skyline
certainly provides a service that
benefits businesses and property
owners in Madison County,
including Big Sky Resort.
National parks drew 273.6
million visitors in 2013
NPS attributes 3 percent decline from
2012 to shutdown, Hurricane Sandy
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – National
Park Service on March 11 released the
2013 visitation figures for America’s
national parks. The NPS recorded
more than 273.6 million total visits to
the 401 U.S. parks, historic sites and
recreation areas during the year.
Although it does top a quarter
billion, 2013 visitation is down a
significant 9.1 million visits from
2012. The decrease was due in
large part to the lapse in federal
appropriations, which shuttered
national parks for the first 16 days in
October.
“The shutdown reduced our
visitation for the year by more than
5 million visitors who were turned
away during those two weeks,” NPS
Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said.
“These closures had a real impact on
local businesses and communities
that rely on the national parks as
important drivers for their local
economies.”
Despite the shutdown, some parks
reported increases in 2013 visitation,
including Gettysburg National
Military Park in Pennsylvania
and Vicksburg National Military
Park in Mississippi, both of which
were buoyed by large crowds and
increased interest due to Civil War
sesquicentennial events.
Other parks saw reduced numbers
due to extended weather-related
closures, including Virginia’s Blue
Ridge Parkway, which saw visitation
fall by 2.5 million due in large part to
storm damage and generally cold and
wet conditions. In New York City, the
lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy
forced the Statue of Liberty, Ellis
Island and Castle Clinton to remain
closed for part of the year.
Golden Gate National Recreation
Area in Northern California replaced
the Blue Ridge Parkway as the most
visited site in the National Park
System.
Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains
National Park retained its top
spot among the 59 sites formally
designated as “national parks,”
with 9.35 million visits in 2013.
Yellowstone National Park and
California’s Yosemite National Park
retained their number two and three
spots, respectively. Glacier National
Park in Montana moved into the
number 10 spot.
The official number of recreational
visits to national parks in 2013 was
273,630,895.
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Montana conservation project ranked No. 1 priority in federal budget
The USFS ranked the Stolze project the highest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The protection of land
priority for the 2015 fiscal year – beginning Oct.
and water in western Montana’s Haskill Basin is
1 – and will use it for its Forest Legacy Program,
the nation’s top-ranked working forest conservawhich makes grants to states to purchase permation project for the U.S. Forest Service, The Trust
nent conservation easements and other property
for Public Land announced on March 10.
interests that protect Forest resources.
Last summer, TPL and F.H. Stoltze Land & LumThe agency would provide $7 million of the esber Co., Montana’s oldest family-owned lumber
timated $17 million total cost. President Obama
company, announced a plan to conserve more than
sent the government-wide
3,000 acres of Stoltze-owned
“Not
only
will
conservation
budget to Capitol Hill in the
land. The property straddles
first week of March, and Conthe Haskill Basin drainage
of Haskill Basin ensure
gress is now considering it.
and provides about 75 percent continued timber jobs
of Whitefish’s drinking water in the area, it protects
The request was part of the
supply. It will be permanently outstanding wildlife habitat,
broader budget for the Land
protected for water, wildlife
a popular trail system, and
and recreation, as well as
most importantly, Whitefish’s and Water Conservation Fund,
the fed’s premier program for
continued sustainable forest
drinking water supply,”
protecting land around the namanagement.
tion. Obama proposed to fully
fund LWCF at $900 million.
“Not only will conservation of Haskill Basin ensure continued timber jobs in the area, it protects
All three of Montana’s congressmen support the
outstanding wildlife habitat, a popular trail sysdeal.
tem, and most importantly, Whitefish’s drinking
water supply,” said Deb Love, Northern Rockies
“Making smart, responsible decisions about forest
Director of The Trust for Public Land.
management and recreation will strengthen our
economy and make sure our kids and grandkids
More funding is needed to permanently protect this
can enjoy our treasured lands,” said Sen. Jon
land, she added, explaining that TPL will work with
Tester, a Democrat and a senior member of the
the local community to raise additional money from
Appropriations subcommittee that will consider
private donors and various public funding sources to
this part of the budget.
make possible the protection of this beloved resource.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Daines said the project is important to Stoltze Land and Lumber and
surrounding communities to help sustain logging
and recreational use of the Haskill Basin. “I was
happy to lend my support for this project and am
pleased that it continues to be recognized as a
priority for northwestern Montana,” Daines said.
Sen. John Walsh, a Democrat who is newly appointed to national office, said it promotes important Montana values.
“Montanans deeply understand the unbreakable
connection between land, water, resource-related
employment, and life in our communities,”
Walsh said. “I appreciate the willingness of Stoltze Lumber to conserve this special property and
to maintain important jobs in the woods, and the
Forest Service has appropriately recognized the
unique significance of this property.”
Stoltze was founded in 1912, although it began as
the State Lumber Co. in 1891.
The Trust for Public Land creates parks and
protects land for people, in an effort to ensure
healthy, livable communities. Nearly 10 million
people live within a 10-minute walk of a TPL
park, garden or natural area, and millions more
visit these sites every year.
Grizzly committee spring
meeting open to public
INTERAGENCY GRIZZLY BEAR COMMITTEE
JACKSON, Wyo. – The Yellowstone
Ecosystem Subcommittee of the
Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee will hold its spring meeting in
Jackson, Wyo. on March 26 – 27. The
meeting is open to the public.
Frank van Manen of the United
States Geological Survey, leader of
the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study
Team, will speak on a recently accepted scientific article by his team that
refutes a previous article by Doak and
Cutler that had critiqued the methods used by the IGBST to estimate
grizzly bear population size and trend
in the Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The meeting will take place at the
Snow King Resort, from 1:15-4:45
p.m. on March 26, and from 8-11:30
a.m. on March 27. Time for public
comments will be included at the end
of each day.
The Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly
bear recovery area includes all of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National
Parks, as well as portions of northwest Wyoming, eastern Idaho and
southwest Montana.
The intermountain West has always
been home to bears. Even in those
times and places where humans tried
to eliminate grizzlies, black bears
were generally allowed to exist. Today, grizzly bears have made large
strides towards recovery. Coupled
with an ever-expanding human presence, this means the opportunity for
an encounter with a bear is possible.
Knowing what bears need to survive,
and what people do that can cause
conflicts is important to reducing the
chance for problems. Bears generally avoid humans because they have
learned contact usually has negative
results. Many people, however, have
never had the chance to learn about
bears or intentionally make choices
that could put themselves or bears at
risk.
Making decisions to decrease the
chance of conflicts is not difficult,
but it requires commitment. For
those living in bear country, it means
learning what attracts bears and making the needed changes to keep bears
from getting into trouble. People
recreating or working in bear country
should learn about identifying bear
sign and what to do if they encounter
a bear. Making bears aware of your
presence and caring bear spray should
become reflex actions.
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Big Sky Shirt Co. p. 23
Headwaters Spring Runoff Results p. 30
Painting for pie
Every year students in the Big Sky School District make artwork to be auctioned off at
the annual Pie Auction, which raises money for the local parent-teacher organization,
alongside professional art and a slew of other items donated by the community.
The K-5 students each created individual pieces in their classrooms this year, said the
school’s art teacher Jolene Hegness, while the middle and high schoolers have been
working on collaborative projects together, with help from their teachers and Hegness.
The average class art project goes for between $50 and $1000, but some have gone for
as much as $4,000, according to Big Sky PTO President Jennifer O’Connor. The total
amount varies from year to year, O’Connor said, noting that last year it raised $2,000,
and the year before $16,000. The organization pays for the materials and has a group of
volunteers who can work with the teachers and students on the projects.
Now in its 34th year, the Pie Auction is a free event that includes silent and live auctions
for fresh baked pies, spa packages, activities, food and wine, electronics, business services,
flights and travel, health services and photography sessions.
A number of programs in the school district rely on PTO funds. – E.W.
For the pie auction, Brittany Ellis’s second grader students each staged a black and white
photo depicting what they would like to be when they grow up. Pictured here is ninth
grader Maria Lovely photographing second grader Emmy Tatom, who is posing as a
zookeeper.PHOTO COURTESY OF BRITTANY ELLIS
Kindergarteners Hayden Hardwick and Mickey Schack made colorful pie auction pieces.
PHOTO BY ERIKA FROUNFELKER
Juniors Justin McKillop and Molly Shar (in the foreground) work on a ceramic tile
relief carving for their high school ceramic class pie art, while freshman Dasha Bough
(background) works on her own high school art class painting. PHOTO BY JOLENE
HEGNESS
Ophir fourth graders frame pressed prints of trout at ArtSplot in Bozeman.
PHOTO COURTESY JEREMY HARDER
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Middle school Social Studies and Indian Education for All teacher Tony Coppola sent in
these photos of his students working together on a pie auction piece that applied what
they learned about Australian Aborigines in Indigenous Culture Studies.
PHOTO BY TONY COPPOLA
The students in Mrs. Hegness’s high school graphics course this year had a
competition to design the official Pie Auction poster, and Micah Robin won with this
design.
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BY EMILY WOLFE
are mined only in Montana, and
Western-themed wedding items.
BOZEMAN – Now in its 10th year,
the Downtown Bozeman Bridal Walk
draws an estimated 1,000 people,
including 200-250 brides, according to
Ellie Staley, program director for the
Downtown Bozeman Partnership.
Registration for the bridal walk will
be at the Baxter Hotel anytime on the
day of the event. There, attendees can
pick up gift bags before strolling Main
Street and perusing the participating
businesses. The 2014 bridal walk is set for
Saturday, April 12, from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. on Main Street, and will roll out
the red carpet for brides, grooms and
their entourages, says Staley, whose
organization hosts the event alongside
retailers and community sponsors.
Each business offers something fun to
interest patrons during the event, from
wine tastings, mimosas, hors d’oeuvres
and cake, to live music, raffles and
giveaways.
About 40 businesses are participating
this year, with offerings including
dresses, rings, invitations, flowers,
catering, photography and gift
registries.
The downtown jewelry store Alara
has been involved with the bridal walk
since the first year, and its owner Babs
Noelle says she’s seen it grow.
“Because of the quality of the retailers
downtown, we have something very
different to offer than the other bridal
events in the area,” said Noelle, also
president of the Downtown Bozeman
Association.
About 40 businesses are participating in the 2014 Bozeman Bridal walk, with offerings
including dresses, rings, invitations, flowers, catering, photography and gift registries.
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Alara has partnered with the Leaf
and Bean, the coffee shop across the
street that will display cupcakes in
the jewelry store, and Noelle will also
offer giveaways, discounts and free
champagne.
“For businesses, this is an opportunity
to attract new customers,” Noelle said.
“Instead of having a small booth setup
at the MSU SUB or the mall, you can
welcome the brides, their friends and
their families into your business – your
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always a smaller group from out of state
planning their weddings here.
“The Montana bride is certainly a little
different, and I think the participating
businesses certainly symbolize that
experience,” Staley said, pointing out
examples like yogo sapphires, which
There will also be a “Bridal Walk
Photography Contest” that day,
when nearly 20-plus bridal-themed
images taken and framed by local
photographers will be displayed
inside most of the participating
businesses. Bridal walk participants
will vote on their favorites, then prizes
and bragging rights will be given to the
winners. Same-day registration for the Bridal
Walk will be held at The Baxter Hotel in
the upstairs ballroom, at 105 West Main
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The Other Yellowstone Ecosystem
Ecosystem strategy and tactics
Just as natural resource-based bioecosystems operate in a complex
natural balance, business ecosystems
require deliberate, conscious
management and shepherding of
their resources to thrive.
BY GREG RUFF
WHITE SPACE STRATEGY
In a natural
ecosystem,
new species
emerge as
a result of
evolution
and
migration,
and the roles
of predator and prey change as food
chains evolve to adapt to resource
and climate conditions. Evolution
occurs as if guided by a strategy
focused on the survival of the
ecosystem itself.
Business ecosystems, on the other
hand, have the ability to guide and
grow both the ecosystem and its
resources. They have the ability to
communicate, collaborate, compete
and establish strategies to guide
their own evolution. The business
ecosystem can make choices to
guide its growth.
Establishing the overall strategy
for a business ecosystem involves
choices including target markets,
value propositions and how
the ecosystem will collaborate.
Even the primary resource, the
ecosystem’s customers, can be
deliberately increased or changed
by focusing on new target market
segments and new needs.
However, many business
ecosystems operate much like bioecosystems, leaving the evolution
of the business ecosystem to
chance. They rarely manage to
expand beyond their initial size
and resource base, and become
competitive predator and prey
ecosystems, with species trading
dominant roles, but not expanding
the overall ecosystem wealth.
The process of deliberately
establishing an ecosystem strategy
involves answering a few basic
questions that lead to success:
• Who is the target customer for
the ecosystem?
• What is it they need? (What is
the “job” they’re trying to accomplish, and where do they
have problems?)
• Our [ecosystem category]
• What category of product or
service does the ecosystem
belong to? (How do customers
find it in a category they’re familiar with?)
• We provide [differentiating
value]
• Provides [the value proposition]
• Unlike [key competitors]
• What is the value proposition
of the ecosystem? (What value
does the ecosystem propose to
deliver?)
• Who are the two or three key
competitors? (What is the competing product or service?)
• What are the ecosystem’s key
differentiators? (What is the
key differentiating value that
sets it apart from the competition in customer valued ways.)
The answers to these basic
questions form the core of an
ecosystem strategy that can be
expressed very succinctly:
• For [target customers]
• Who need [to accomplish a job]
By expressing the strategy in a
simple phrase format, it becomes
easy for all the business ecosystem
members to understand and express
it as a guideline for everything
from business plans and tactics to
messaging and advertising.
Once the strategy has been clarified
and communicated, the ecosystem
members can move on to define the
tactics that will implement it and
make it real – the subject of my next
article.
Greg Ruff has consulted to Fortune
500 companies and startup businesses
on management, market and growth
strategies since 1987. He first visited
Big Sky in 1993 and recently relocated
here. In this column, he writes about
how business- and bio-ecosystems
can mutually benefit from creative
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Big Sky business prints fashionable threads
designed and built all the fixtures and
reclaimed some of the wood used in
the store from the decking torn out of
the Hill Condos at Big Sky Resort last
summer.
Big Sky Shirt Co. has three part-time
employees and plans to hire one or
two more screen printers this summer
to help in the production shop in
the Peaks
building, near
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Moose. This
is where the
magic happens.
Big Sky Shirt Co. owners Alaina Stinson and Josh Tozier opened their retail shop in
December 2011.
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planned to ski during the day and print
at night,” she said. “Opening a store
was going to take that luxury away.”
BIG SKY – If you own apparel adorned
with the logo of your favorite Big
Sky business, chances are Josh Tozier
printed it. Tozier and Alaina Stinson’s
Big Sky Shirt Co. has printed T-shirts,
jackets or hoodies for the Big Sky Fire
Department, Blue Moon Bakery and
Grizzly Outfitter’s Rental/Repair shop,
to name a few.
They still manage to get a few runs
a day and close their retail space on
Snowy Mountain Circle – across the
parking lot from Gallatin Alpine Sports
– until 3 p.m. when there’s six inches
or more of fresh snow at the resort.
Otherwise, the shop they opened in
December 2011 is open 11 a.m. to 8
p.m. daily.
Tozier and Stinson both grew up in
Waterville, Maine and after living
separately in locations around the
west, reconnected in Big Sky when
Tozier moved from Lakewood, Colo.
in November 2008. He was doing
freelance graphic design work for
clients back in Lakewood and locally,
but was tired of doing web design.
Soon after it opened, Big Sky
Shirt Co. was honored with the
chamber’s Green Business of the
Year in 2012. The water-based inks
it uses are environmentally friendly
and free of toxic chemicals, and its
cleaning products are soy based and
biodegradable. All the apparel and
accessories are eco-friendly and/or
made in the U.S.
“I was working at Grizzly Outfitters at
the time, and Josh was doing freelance
graphic design, but had always wanted
to create his own clothing line,”
Stinson said. After looking into getting
his designs screen printed elsewhere,
they decided to buy their own
equipment and purchased a press from
Bozeman’s Sven Gear in 2010.
They started the business in their
garage on Rainbow Trout Run and
began peddling their wares at farmers
markets. Soon, people began asking
when they were going to open a store,
Stinson recalls.
“We had never really given a store too
much thought since we had originally
“At first we struggled with this
decision, because there are a lot of
products we desperately wanted to
carry, but didn’t meet our standards,”
Stinson said. “However, when one
door closes, another opens and because
of our standards we have found a lot
of really unique brands that are doing
incredible things.”
They carry bracelets from The Base
Project that are hand carved in Namibia
from discarded PVC pipe, as well as
shirts made from recycled X-ray film.
Walking into the well-lit retail shop,
the couple’s commitment to conscious
form and function is apparent. They
already in use for a business, or a new
concept that Tozier develops with a
client. An example of the latter is the
Grizzly Outfitter Rental/Repair shop
logo, with the bear chomping on a pair
of skis.
“Josh is a genius at designing stuff,”
said Nick Turner, Grizzly’s Rental/
Repair manager. “The old manager
To print a
garment, Tozier
first takes a
screen, coats it
with emulsion,
and puts it in a
drying cabinet.
He then prints
a transparency, Where the magic happens: Big Sky Shirt Co.’s screen printer sits
takes the dried ready for action in the Peaks building, in Big Sky Town Center.
screen out
of the cabinet, etches the design and
wanted a bear eating a pair of skis… I
hits it with light. Once that’s cured,
don’t know how to create these things
it’s washed away and then put on the
or get them on paper. He’s great at it,
press to register it. Finally, the ink is
[he] just read my mind.”
squeezed through the screen onto the
apparel and then cured in a conveyor
Tozier and Stinson plan to convert the
drier, which looks like a giant pizza
production shop into a full-service
oven.
showroom this summer, where clients
can choose their screens, ink and
The T-shirt company will print logos
different apparel options.
designed by Tozier, an existing design
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From March 5 – 14, Explore Big Sky hosted a social media
contest where entrants submitted photos of their favorite
weekend activity via the hashtag #explorebigsky, for a
chance to win two lift tickets to Jackson Hole Mountain
Resort.
Big Sky local Shane Knowles won for his photo “long way
from home,” submitted on Instagram and pictured at right.
Knowles took the photo of his friend Hunter Waldron on
the Little Bridger Ridge, looking back toward Lone Mountain’s west face.
“I really liked the depth and drama of it,” said Outlaw Partners designer Kelsey Dzintars, who was part of the voting
committee.
Knowles, Waldron and Kyle Olson headed down from
Big Sky to Jackson on March 16, crashed with friends
in town, hammered the resort on the 17th, and drove
home during a storm. Knowles had never skied Jackson
Hole before, and said they skied Corbet’s Couloir on
their first run.
Pictured here is Knowles’ winning image, as well as
some of our other favorites from the contest – you can
find more online at Explore Big Sky’s Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram feeds. Follow us @explorebigsky, and tag
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EXPLORE BIG SKY CONTRIBUTOR
You see him four days a week. He loads you
into the tram car and greets you at the peak,
letting you know what terrain you can ski
for the day. He harnesses himself off the top
tram house and hangs on the face of Lone
Mountain, shoveling heavy snow out of the
tram dock on powder days so you can enjoy
Big Sky’s best face shots.
When Chance Lenay isn’t at work, he’s
shredding the snow off of Lone Mountain
harder than almost anyone. Coming from
Gig Harbor, Wash., he was no stranger to
riding steep and deep terrain when he arrived in Big Sky seven years ago.
Lenay began snowboarding competitively in
2010, riding in the Headwaters Spring Runoff here in Big Sky and then on the North
Face Masters tour. Now, Lenay is fighting
his way through the qualifier tour on the
Subaru Freeride Series, trying to earn a spot
among the best snowboarders of the world
on the Swatch Freeride World Tour.
Chance Lenay sends it at Moonlight Basin.
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Lenay remembers his first competition
in the 2010 Headwaters Spring Runoff
vividly. Standing atop terrain he had been
riding for years, he was nervous and even a
bit scared. But from the moment he dropped
into his first competition line, Lenay caught
the competitive freeriding bug. After finishing in second place behind Tim Cowie, he
was hooked, and went on to win the Runoff
two years later in 2012.
Lenay is competing in all four Subaru stops
this season. After a 17th place finish in
Crested Butte at the first stop this year, he
had time to prepare for a three-week run
from Telluride, Colo., to Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows, Calif., and then back home
to the North American finals in Big Sky,
April 3 - 5.
Lenay says he’s been training hard since returning from Crested Butte. “[I] get up early
and ride hard every day,” he explains.
“Riding everything fluid and being comfortable,” is how Lenay describes his current
preparation and focus for the upcoming
competition stops. He knows that riding
a unique line and making it look good is
exactly what the judges want.
We wish him luck in the coming weeks.
Come on out to the Big Sky Subaru Freeride
Series stop in April to cheer on Lenay and
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Big Sky wrestling is making big noise on mats around Montana. On March 8,
three local wrestlers each took first place in their respective weight divisions
at the Townsend Invitational wrestling tournament.
Then, a week later, the same three took top spots once again, this time at the
Little Guy Wrestling Divisional Tournament in Whitehall on March 15.
In Townsend, Carly Wilson, a fourth grader and the only girl to compete for
Ophir School, took first place in the 55-pound category, while third graders
Max Romney and Pierce Farr placed first in the 59-pound and 75-pound
weight classes, respectively.
At the Whitehall tourney, Farr and Wilson again placed in first, while
Romney scored a second place finish. All three wrestlers qualified for the
State Wrestling Tournament, to be held at the Belgrade High School Events
Center on Saturday, March 22.
In just their second year competing in tournaments, Big Sky School District
Athletic Director Tony Beardsley, who also coaches the squad, couldn’t be
happier with the results.
“I’m extremely proud of all the kids,” Beardsley said. “Those three in
particular have a strong desire to succeed.”
There are currently more than 30 kids participating in the Big Sky intramural
wrestling program, according to Beardsley, who is hopeful the number of
tournament competitors will increase over the next couple years.
Beardsley, along with Ty Moline and John Romney, coach the team while
Stephen Pruiett also volunteers time. Third grader Benji Saad is also on the
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Getting high in the mountains
Sierra climbing pioneer, author to speak in Bozeman
BY EMILY WOLFE
Halfway through the 32K
Boulder Mountain Tour Nordic
ski race, Doug Robinson felt his
body and his emotions entering a
state he calls “flow.”
“It’s where the skiing gets really
easy and even though you’ve
already skied for hours and
you’re tired, the way it feels is
fresh and almost easy,” he said.
“[I felt] very, very alive.”
This continued off and on for the
rest of the race. “I would have
two or three minutes at a time
where everything was skiing
perfectly, and then I’d slump
into feeling tired and hungry
again and wanting it to be over,
and then it would go back to
being effortless and bright and
wonderful.”
That feeling isn’t a new one
for Robinson, 68, and a rock
climbing pioneer in California’s
Sierra Nevada Mountains. In
fact, it’s one he’s chased his entire
life, from running the back roads
near his parents’ home in the
Silicon Valley as a teenager – a
time when no one ran for fun,
he notes – to establishing new
routes in the high Sierra and
skiing around the western U.S.
for the last 60 years.
“More than just a glassy-eyed
hippie, Doug was a writer/
philosopher/athlete at the center
of a powerful outdoor sports
movement unique to California,”
according to a 2009 story in
Adventure Sports Journal online.
Alpine Club – Montana
Section.
“What he is doing is similar to
Michael Pollan’s conceit in the
“Botany of Desire,” but takes
it a step further,” writer Bruce
Willey told EBS in an email
about Robinson’s book and
presentation. “Doug is urging
you to get high on your own
brain by simply getting off
the couch, putting down the
iPhone, and getting outdoors
to experience your brain when
it’s turned on fully.”
Willey described Robinson’s
presenting style as engaging.
“Like John Muir who he is
often compared to, his feet
barely touch the ground.”
Q&A with
Doug Robinson
Explore Big Sky: Have you
been to Bozeman before?
Doug Robinson: I’ve been to
Bozeman a number of times…
I’ve skied up at Big Sky and at
Bridger Bowl, and have hung
out a few times in Paradise
Valley because writer and
editor friends of mine live
there – Russell Chatham, Tom
McGuane, Jim Harrison and
Terry McDonell, who was the
editor of Outside magazine its
first year when I worked there.
EBS: What did you do at
Outside?
DR: I wrote articles, cover
Robinson climbing in the Palisades region, above Bishop, Calif., with 14,242-foot North
stories for a number of
Palisade in the background. He guided in the Palisades for a decade starting in 1966.
PHOTO BY GORDON WILTSIE | COURTESY OF DOUG ROBINSON
years, features, gear reviews.
Basically I was hanging around
National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside
the San Francisco office so
and Men’s Journal, among others.
much that they ended up giving me an office and a
“True, a trend towards environmentalism and a
typewriter.
‘back-to-the-land’ consciousness was flowering all
Most recently, he authored “The Alchemy of
over the country back then, but what Doug and
Action,” a book about that siren song of “flow,”
EBS: Tell me about the difference between
his friends like Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard,
which he explains is a hormonal high created
writing on a typewriter and a computer? Has
Chuck Pratt, Galen Rowell and Dennis Hennek
by activities like skiing, climbing and running.
your process changed?
were exploring was different... Each had spent
Having performed ample self-study, taken enough
DR: Neither the typewriter nor the computer is
many days lashed to vertical Sierra rock, thousands
college chemistry for a minor, and lugged medical
as germane to my process as a plain old hardback
of feet off the ground. Each [was] adept at rugged
textbooks into the mountains to study between
notebook, a small one, and a pen and a pencil that
existence in a harsh alpine environment.”
guiding gigs, it’s fair to say he is fascinated by it.
goes into my belt bag that’s with me when I’m
[outdoors]. My writing process depends more on
Robinson chronicled many of these adventures in
He will present a slideshow in Bozeman on the
inspiration from moving my body than it does
“A Night on the Ground, a Day in the Open,” a
topic on Wednesday, March 26, at Northern Lights
book published in 1997, and has also written for
Trading Co., in coordination with the American
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EBS: You’ve spent a great
deal of your life outside.
But you’re also a writer.
How do you find balance?
DR: That’s one of those
ongoing problems, right? Just
now I was sitting inside the
library building where I can
get wi-fi, doing that work.
Now [talking to you], I’m in
the sunshine looking at the
mountains, appreciating that I
was out of touch with that for
the last couple hours.
The Circle Boulder in the Buttermilk boulders outside Bishop got its name
from photographer Gordon Wiltsie's idea of cutting this classic shot into a
circle, which Robinson calls “pleasantly disorienting.” PHOTO BY GORDON
WILTSIE | COURTESY OF DOUG ROBINSON
from thought processes. It’s really important to me
to have that notebook, and to sit down by the trail
or on a ledge on a climb and write down a piece of
inspiration that occurs to me.
EBS: What can people expect from your
slideshow?
DR: The show follows the arc of the book, [“The
Alchemy of Action”], to some degree, [and is
illustrated] with slides about what an adrenaline
reaction actually is, and why that’s something that
nobody would cheerfully repeat, and then segues
into what the brain hormones really are.
EBS: Tell me more about
the space you find in the
mountains.
DR: I’m a lucky person,
genetically speaking,
because the threshold of that
visionary affect for me was
relatively low, so that I slip
into that state easily. That’s
had an addictive quality in my
life. I go ‘OK well, I just went
climbing, and I got high from
it, let’s go do it again.’ Thank
goodness it’s such a healthy
addiction.
EBS: How much of this is about attitude –
about seeing the glass as half full?
DR: Part of my purpose in writing this book is
to call attention to something that initially is
pretty subtle. This is not like taking a tab of acid
and going into hyperdrive. It’s dialed back. I’m
hoping people can start to notice this happening
in themselves at a more subtle level … If you
understand it’s there and it’s being evoked by your
activity, then you can tune into the positive part of
it more readily.
It’s like an emotional or hormonal training. You
train your heart and your lungs for this stuff,
right? You train yourself to make moves on
rock and on ice and on snow. It’s perceptual and
emotional training that runs parallel to those.
EBS: You’re still able to backcountry ski and do
long climbs at age 68. What’s your secret?
DR: Being really careful. Climbing conservatively.
What: “The Alchemy of Action,” a
slideshow with Doug Robinson
When: Wednesday, March 26, 7:30
p.m.
Where: Northern Lights Trading Co.
Robinson’s new book, The Alchemy of
Action, will be available at the show and
also at his website movingoverstone.com.
There’s noradrenaline, [the fight-or-flight
hormone], and dopamine, our pleasure hormone,
and serotonin, the roll-with-it hormone, the one
where you feel like you’re on top of things … The
last two ingredients of the hormonal cocktail are
the psychedelic compounds. Anandamide is the
hormonal equivalent of marijuana. The last one
is DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics
known, the active ingredient in ayahuasca, [a drug
people take with] South American shamans.
EBS: Let’s talk about drug use.
DR: This kind of science can’t be done without
reference to the drugs. You can do experiments on
lab rats, and you can see what drugs are evoked
in their brains, but you can’t ask them about
their experience. You can ask people about their
experience, but you can’t slice and dice their brains
to be sure the [hormones] are there. The only way
science has been able to overcome that is through
personal experience – the neurochemists take the
drugs they make and see what their experience is.
This has been going on for hundreds of years.
EBS: So your theory is that we get high from
climbing and skiing, right?
DR: Yes, but people who get high from climbing
and skiing don’t get so far out that they lose
contact with everyday reality. It’s a low-dose
effect, a threshold dose that brightens our
perceptions but… we’re not doing slow rolls
through deep space the way people sometimes do
on psychedelics.
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The camps and
productions are fun for
the actors and viewers, says
Rowley, the producer, and
the programming also has an
educational component to it.
These young dancers are practicing for Big Sky’s Got Talent. They’ll be dancing to “Castle
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BY EMILY WOLFE
BIG SKY – Local musical theater is growing, thanks in
large part to a dedicated group of students and
community members led by Barbara Rowley
and John Zirkle.
The two are the brawn behind Big Sky
Broadway, which they founded five years
ago as a theater camp for local kids and is now
growing to accommodate high school students
for the first time this year, with an April 16
production of Cinderella.
“When anybody gets onstage
for rehearsal or audition,
John approaches it from an
educational angle,” she said,
referring to Zirkle, who is the
Warren Miller Performing
Arts Center Artistic Director
and also the director for Big
Sky Broadway.
Rowley says the kids
learn life skills through
the Big Sky Broadway
productions.
“You’re not just trying to
teach them to be performers on stage, you’re giving
them the skills to operate as leaders in the world,”
she said. “That’s what they really take away – body
position, eyes, voice modulation, diction… Those are
the things when you interview someone [for a job], it
makes a difference.”
The program’s only fundraiser, the Big Sky’s Got
Talent show, is coming up on Friday, April 4, with a
variety of Broadway-themed acts to include dance,
duets, piano solos and adult singers Sarah Phelps
Griffiths and John Dobson, Rowley said.
Zirkle loves seeing people on stage.
“A talent show is our modern day vaudeville idea, a
variety show,” said Zirkle, who will emcee the third
annual talent show with Rowley. “We say to the kids
and people in the community, ‘What do you really
want to do? What excites you?’ and then we celebrate
that. It’s a showcase of what Big Sky has to offer.”
In years past, Big Sky’s Got Talent has raised between
$2,000-$3,000, Rowley said.
The event will help support its signature summer kids
programming, as well as the musical theater programs
for Lone Peak High School kids, Cinderella. Because
there is no tuition charge for the high school program,
Big Sky Broadway depends on these funds plus
ticket sales to pay for things like staffing, costumes,
production rights, music software and video, Rowley
said.
“People like to see the kids and adults they know
taking the risk and the challenge of going out and
entertaining their fellow community members,”
Rowley said about the talent show. “From the audience
perspective, I think it’s a good time.”
Big Sky’s Got Talent will be held April 4, starting
at 6:30 p.m. at the Warren Miller Performing Arts
Center. With 10-12 five-minute acts, the show will
last approximately an hour.
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Big Sky Resort (thru Tues.)
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Live Music @ Whiskey Jack’s
Mike Haring, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons,
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Live Music @ The Carabiner
Lauren Regnier, 4-6 p.m.
Kevin Fabozzi, 8:30-11 p.m.
Larry Myer
Chet’s Bar, 4:30-6 p.m.
Rocky Mountain Pearls
Gallatin Riverhouse Grille, 7 p.m.
Jeff Belino
Ousel & Spur, 9-11 p.m.
Riot Act
Broken Spoke, 10 p.m.
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Headwaters Spring Runoff – Juniors
Stillwater Bowl @ MLB,
Dirtbag Day
Big Sky Resort
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Live Music @ Whiskey Jack’s
Dos Mayos, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons,
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Pie Auction Fudnraiser
Buck’s T -4, 7 p.m.
Lone Mountain Trio
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m. & 8:30-11 p.m.
Mike Haring
Whiskey Jack’s, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Bruce Anfinson
LMR Saloon, 4:30-6 p.m.
Live Music @ the Carabiner
Kenny Diamond, 4-6 p.m.
Larry Myer, 8-11 p.m.
Larry Myer
Mike Haring
Choppers, 5:30 p.m.
The Art of Eating for Energy
Solace Wellness Studio, 6-9 p.m.
DJ Night
SUNDAY, MARCH 23
Yoga & Skate Ski Workshop
Lone Mountain Ranch, 8 a.m.
Kent Johnson
Kevin Fabozzi
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
Gustavo Romero
Talus Room @ BSR,
MONDAY, MARCH 24
Ophir School Flower Sale
Big Sky (thru April 7)
Dan Dubuque
Montana Exit
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
Diamond
Line Dance Lessons
Buck’s T -4, 5:45-7 p.m.
Montana Exit Live
LMR Saloon, 8-9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Taco Tuesday
Cinnamon Lodge
Bruce Anfinson
Hill Family Estate Wine Dinner
Rainbow Ranch, 5:30 p.m.
Fly-tying Night
Gallatin River Guides, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
Tribal Trunk Show
Big Horn Boutique, 2 p.m.
Lauren Regnier, 4-6 p.m.
Kevin Fabozzi, 8-11 p.m.
Ric & Linda Steinke
Larry Myer
Crawfish & Cornbread
WMPAC, 5-9 p.m.
Ben Macht & Friends
Ousel & Spur, 9-11 p.m.
The Mediocres
Choppers, 9 p.m.
Ric Steinke
5 Star’s Birthday Bash w/Dead Hipster
Black Bear, 9 p.m.
Diamond
DJ Night
Natalie’s Estate Winery tasting
Jack Creek Grille @ MLB Lodge, 5-7 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
Dummy Jump
Big Sky Resort, 10 a.m.
Awareness Wednesday w/Shawn Robertson
Shedding Light on our Subtle Anatomy w/
the Power of Breath
Santosha, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Karaoke/Open Mic Night
Broken Spoke, 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
Load Bearing Walks
Menasco Duo
Diamond
Bruce Anfinson
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Mike Haring
Kent Johnson
Shemus Conley
Free Radicals
Larry Myer
Lone Mountain Trio, 4-6 p.m.
Two Bit Franks, 8-11 p.m.
Ric & Linda Steinke
Brian Stumpf
Choppers, 5:30 p.m.
Doyle’s Revenge
Ophir School Fundraiser
Gallatin Riverhouse Grille, 7:30 p.m.
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Mark Applebaum: The Frontiers of Music
WMPAC, 7:30 p.m.
Alpine Dual GS
Bobcat Race Course, 12 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
Kent Johnson
Montana Made: A Celebration of Musicians that Give Back & the Dessert for the
Spirit Reception
Reynolds Recital Hall, 7 p.m.
For its 2014 banquet, Gallatin Valley Pheasants Forever is offering a sponsor
gun raffle for a Winchester Model 101, an over/under 12-gauge shotgun.
MONDAY, MARCH 24
Pints w/Purpose: Big Sky Youth Home
Bridger Brewing, 5 p.m.
The event is slated for Friday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. at Bozeman’s Best
Western GranTree Inn.
Trivia Night
Bacchus Pub, 8 p.m.
Sponsorships are available. Register at [email protected] or call (406) 581-1544.
Dos Mayos
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
MONDAY, MARCH 31
Dan Dubuque
Montana Exit
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
Gallatin Valley Pheasants Forever’s 17th annual banquet, fundraiser
Diamond
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Taking Local, Global: Leading Transformation in Morocco Reynolds Recital Hall, 7 p.m.
Evergreen Grass Band & Kitchen Dwellers
Peach Street Studios, 8 p.m.
Line Dance Lessons
Buck’s T -4, 5:45-7 p.m.
Rich Riesser
Bacchus Pub, 8 p.m.
Future Island
Filling Station, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Mike Haring
Emancipator w/Slow Magic
The Zebra,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
Music & Mussels
Bridger Brewing, 5:30 p.m.
Kenny Diamond
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
Music & Mussels w/Hollerin’ Pine
Howlin’ Brothers
Bruce Anfinson
Sizzling Salsa
The MAC, 8-10:30 p.m.
Karaoke
Bacchus Pub, 9 p.m.
Fly-tying Night
Gallatin River Guides, 7 p.m.
Steel Pulse
The Emerson, 8 p.m.
Cave Singers
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
Subaru Freeride Series
Big Sky Resort (thru April 6)
Karaoke
Bacchus Pub, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
MSU Spring Rodeo
Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, 7 p.m.
Ric & Linda Steinke
Kevin Fabozzi, 4-6 p.m.
Mike Haring, 8:30-11 p.m.
Diamond
Karaoke/Open Mic Night
Broken Spoke, 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
Load Bearing Wals
Mike Haring
Carabiner, 4-6 p.m.
Menasco Duo
Bruce Anfinson
BOZEMAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
TEDx Bozeman 2014: Pioneer Spirit
The Commons, 1-5:30 p.m.
Champu Emporium Ribbon Cutting
Champu Emporium, 5-6 p.m.
GV Agriculture Committee Appreciation
Banquet
Best Western Plus GranTree Inn, 6 p.m.
Onomono & Ella Waton
Wild Joe’s, 7-9 p.m.
Spamalot
The Verge, 8 p.m. (and Sat.)
Confluence
The Zebra, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22
HRDC Community Breakfast
HRDC Community Café (N. 7th Ave.),
8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
ZZ Top
Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
Business After Hours
The Flooring Place, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
BFF Presents: The Great Beauty
The Emerson, 7:30 p.m.
David Bazan
Vibe
Bacchus Pub, 8 p.m.
Hot Buttered Rum
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Gallatin Valley Pheasants Forever Banquet
Best Western GranTree Inn, 5:30-10 p.m.
A Steampunk Exposition
MSAEC, 6 p.m.
Kimberly Pierson & Ellen Kuntz
Wild Joe’s, 7-9 p.m.
Swing Cats Dance
The MAC
Stand Up Comedy w/John Nelson
The Emerson, 7:30 p.m.
Chris Wyte
Reynolds Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Spamalot
The Verge, 8 p.m. (and Sat.)
1st Annual Cyril Neville & Friends Funk Fest
The Ellen, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
Dirt Bag Ball – Bridger
Location TBA
Jill & The Beanstalk
The Verge, 2 p.m.
Rhapsody – Student Acapella Concert
Jill & The Beanstalk
The Verge, 2 p.m.
John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band
The Ellen, 8 p.m.
Point & Chute Film Festival
Jim Bridger Lodge, 5 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
The Wench
Funk Meltdown
One Leaf Clover
The Zebra, 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23
KGLT Fund Drive
(through Sat. April 5)
Bridger Bump – Off Freestyle Comp
Bronco Face
MSU Youth Chorale w/Dolce Canto
MONDAY, MARCH 31
Access Your Inner Wisdom
Bozeman Public Library, 7-8:30 p.m.
Trivia Night
Bacchus Pub, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Pints with Purpose: Big Sky Youth Empowerment
Bridger Brewing, 5 p.m.
Charlie Parr
LIVINGSTON &
PARADISE VALLEY
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
Elks Lodge
Murray Bar, 8:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
New to You Art & Antique Sale Fundraiser
The Depot, 5-8 p.m.
Les Miserables
The Shane, 8 p.m.
The Fossils
BlackWater Band
Chico Saloon, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
Bowl for Kids Sake
Treasure Lanes, 9 a.m.
Chicken Workshop
Livingston Court House, 9 a.m.
New to You Art & Antique Sale Fundraiser
The Depot, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Les Miserables
The Shane, 3 & 8 p.m.
Pioneer Society Dinner
Park County Fairgrounds, 6 p.m.
Gallatin Grass Project
Les Miserables
The Shane, 8 p.m.
BlackWater Band
Andrew Gromiller
Buckhorn Theatre, 8-11 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
Les Miserables
The Shane, 3 p.m.
Brilliant Traces
Blue Slipper Theatre, 8 p.m.
Big Ol’
TuckerDown
SATURDAY, MARCH 22
Permaculture Class: Start With the Soil
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Les Miserables
The Shane, 3 & 8 p.m.
Paul Ray
American Legion, 5-9 p.m.
Spring Fiesta & Cabaret
St. Mary’s,
Kurt Warren & Craig Hall
Pine Creek Café, 7 p.m.
“Brilliant Traces”
The Bus Driver Tour
Someday Miss Pray
Gypsy Lumberjacks
MONDAY, MARCH 31
Open Mic Night
The Mint, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Swingley Jazz Project
The Mint, 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
The Blackberry Bushes
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
Network Live!
American Federal Savings Bank,
5:30-7 p.m.
StrangeWays
WEST YELLOWSTONE
TuckerDown
SATURDAY, MARCH 22
Equinox Ski & Fatbike Challenge
Rendezvous Ski Trails,10 a.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23
“Brilliant Traces”
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
8 Ball Singles Pool Tournament
Wild West Saloon, 7 p.m.
Les Miserables
The Shane, 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
8 Ball Team Pool Tourney
MONDAY, MARCH 24
Open Mic Night
The Mint, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1
Cycle Only Days thru April 17
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Relay for Life Fundraiser
Livingston, 5:30-7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
Mike Munson/Jake Ilika
Murray Bar, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
LBID Social Night
Elks Lodge, 5:30 p.m.
Strangeways
8 Ball Singles Pool Tournament
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
8 Ball Team Pool Tourney
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BIG SKY – The Arts Council of Big
Sky is hosting its second annual fundraising gala, Crawfish and Cornbread,
on March 28, at the Warren Miller
Performing Arts Center.
In addition to a “quick finish” session
featuring Montana artists and a live
art auction, which begins at 5 p.m.,
there will be a Cajun-themed dinner
catered by Buck’s T-4. At 7:30 p.m.,
jazz singer Eden Atwood, along with
the Glen Johnston Swing Band, will
take the stage.
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Born in Memphis, Atwood relocated
to Montana at age 5, and then to Chicago at age 19 to attend the American
Conservatory of Music. Eight years
of classical piano had provided her
with a solid musical foundation,
but Atwood wanted to able to write
and arrange her own material, so she
produced a demo tape. It caught the
attention of Bill Allen at Chicago’s
legendary, now defunct, Gold Star
Sardine Bar, and at 21, she became
the headliner, staying for eight years
with breaks to accommodate acting
and modeling jobs in New York, Los
Angeles and Paris.
In 1993, Marian McPartland of Piano
Jazz fame heard Atwood’s self-produced album, “Today,” and forwarded it to Concord Records President,
Carl Jefferson. He signed her immediately to a three-record deal, and
she remains the youngest artist ever
signed to the label. She produced
four albums for Concord, all of which
received critical praise.
Since the release of Atwood’s last
Concord recording, “A Night In The
Life,” she has performed all over the
world sharing bills with Gene Harris, Joshua Redman and the Toshiko
Akiyoshi Big Band. She has been
featured on NPR’s Piano Jazz with
Marian McPartland and Ms. McPartland appears on three tracks of Eden’s
CD “There Again.” Starbucks Coffee,
Eddie Bauer and Brooks Brothers
have all put tracks of Eden’s on their
compilation CDs along side Billie
Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy
Wilson.
Atwood since signed with Groove
Note Records and made “Waves, The
Bossa Nova Session,” a recording of
bossa nova standards and Brazilian
flavored standards from the Great
American Songbook. Her upcoming
album is titled True North, and she
is working on a memoir, “The Last
White Horse.” She currently lives
in Missoula, teaching private vocal
students, working with attachmentdisordered children and touring.
The inaugural Crawfish and Cornbread sold $23,000 in original
artwork, with half of the auction proceeds going to ACBS to help offset
the costs of producing its events.
Tickets are now available via phone at
(406) 995-2742.
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What is music?
BY MARIA WYLLIE
EXPLORE BIG SKY STAFF WRITER
BIG SKY – Warren Miller Performing Arts Center’s
debut season ends Saturday, March 29, with Mark
Applebaum: The Frontiers of Music, a concert by
Stanford University professor and avant-garde composer Mark Applebaum.
Applebaum teaches music composition and theory,
and his solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic and
electroacoustic work has been performed throughout
the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia. He is also a jazz
pianist and builds electroacoustic instruments out of
junk, hardware and various found objects.
Working as a composer and professor, Applebaum
has two very different but strongly overlapping roles.
While he is deeply committed to teaching on one side,
he also asks questions that haven’t yet been answered,
working outside the boundaries of what is and what
can be.
An experimentalist, Applebaum’s music is diverse
and noncommercial. “In that music I explore all sorts
of different kinds of ideas, many of which recently
problematize the actual definition of music and its
boundaries,” he said in a phone interview with EBS.
Defying boundaries has been one of the underlying
themes of WMPAC’s debut season. Artistic Director
John Zirkle began the season with a sold-out performance of the James Sewell Ballet during which dancers
seemingly defied gravity, expressing themselves as
athletes and artists through modern dance.
“The big theme here for me is adventure, and Applebaum is one of the most
adventurous thinkers and
performers and artists I’ve
ever seen,” Zirkle said.
“He has the perfect balance
of this adventurous free
thinking and this really
poignant accessibility.”
The March 29 concert
will feature Applebaum
playing jazz piano, performing hand choreography, and playing his own
instrument called the
“mouseketier.” Much of
what Applebaum is exploring is untrodden territory,
and his various acts will
be accompanied by lecture
presentations explaining
the thinking behind what
he’s doing – for example,
how the jazz improviser
thinks while improvising,
or the motivations behind
building a new instrument.
Mark Applebaum is a Stanford University music professor and composer. Although he’s known for his
experimental works, he is also a jazz pianist and his solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic and
electroacoustic work has been performed worldwide. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WMPAC
He isn’t against convention – he’s just not motivated
by it in his own work. As a professor, Applebaum
is constantly listening to music in order to keep
up with what’s going on and teach his students.
However, he doesn’t listen to it for his own entertainment.
“I’m tired of music,” he said. “Most people come to
music for enjoyment and escape, and that’s not my
principal motivation. For me, composition is a way
to reanimate my fascination with music by creating
new artistic problems.”
Because Applebaum is doing “weird” stuff, people
often ask how he gauges the success.
“It should be a puzzle for the audience,” Applebaum
says. “It should be strange and a little odd for them,
but they should follow up with intrigue and fascination and wanting to further engage with it.”
Historically, the avant-garde artist typically meant
establishing some sort of social, economic or political reform. Although Applebaum isn’t working
with a specific reformative goal in mind, he says his
work does have a political subtext.
“It is a metaphor for diversity and freedom of
thought…I’m optimistic that if there’s a takeaway, it’s that we are all artistically free, and I
want to live in a society that permits that kind
of broad intellectual and artistic exploration,”
he said.
Applebaum says his music is for open minded
and curious people, those interested in learning
about the frontiers of music. An all-ages show,
the concert should appeal to anyone who doesn’t
think music stops with Mozart.
This artist who describes himself as a self-deprecating, genius narcissist is a fitting closer for WMPAC’s debut season. As a performing arts center,
WMPAC events aren’t just about entertaining.
Rather, they are about freedom of thinking and
expression, and about challenging the audience to
think in new ways.
Called the “mouseketier,” the above instrument is a sound sculpture Applebaum
invented out of junk and found objects, which he plays with chopsticks and violin
bows. An electroacoustic instrument, Applebaum processes and warps the sounds
electronically to create vastly different soundscapes.
“Many people find what
artists do to be a deep
mystery and perplexing
aspect of our culture, so
I’m hoping to demystify that,” he said.
Applebaum asks his listeners to take chances and
step outside of what they know. “I’m interested in
thinking about what kinds of questions I might pose
that other people might not,” he explained. “Some
of my impulse to be an experimentalist is related to
an intrinsic need to be useful so I don’t see the point
in repeating something that’s already been done.”
Consequently, his music is not typically inspired by
the work of other musicians either. Instead, a lot of
his compositions are extra musical, inspired by influences outside the music world. For example, years
ago he was commissioned to create a special piece called
“Asylum” in which he composed a musical articulation of psychological disorders in sound. He spent a
year studying psychology in order to do so.
“We’re trying to present interesting ideas, and I
think Mark is a perfect closer for that type of statement,” Zirkle said. “It’s a total one man show that’s
almost in a way a recap [of the season] and a moving
forward idea.”
Not only will the audience learn how a composer’s mind works, but they will get to listen to
fun, uplifting music produced out of a beautiful
sound-sculpture, hear jazz and classical standards, and perchance get on stage and learn from the
mastermind that is Mark Applebaum.
As a thank you to the community for an amazing debut
season, WMPAC is offering people a free pair of tickets
to the final event. To claim your tickets, email with the
words Outlaw Apple in the subject line. Visit warrenmillerpac.org for more information on the event.
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Pinky drops two more powerful performances on Bozeman
Pinky and the Floyd debuted a new cubed projection screen suspended over the stage, during a rocking two-night stand at the Emerson Cultural Center on March 6
and 7. PHOTOS BY TYLER ALLEN
BY TYLER ALLEN
BOZEMAN – Pinky and the Floyd
has paid tribute to one of rock’s most
influential bands during more than
50 live shows in the last six years.
The Bozeman-based Pink Floyd cover
band played two more exceptional
nights of music on their home
turf March 6 and 7, at the historic
Emerson Theater.
The theater run, entitled “Cubed:
An Odyssey of Sound and Vision,”
incorporated a giant cubed projection
screen suspended over the stage
where illustrations, video and live
images of the band were shown
throughout the night.
The band debuted four new songs
to their devoted Bozeman fan
base: “San Tropez” off the album
“Meddle;” “Coming Back to Life”
from “The Division Bell;” “Two Suns
in the Sunset” from “The Final Cut;”
and “Free Four” from “Obscured by
Clouds.” The set lists were identical
each night, save for the omission of
“Free Four” on Friday.
They played every song from “Dark
Side of the Moon,” peppering cuts
from the seminal album sequentially
throughout the set list, as well as
select cuts from “The Wall,” also in
chronological order. The band worked
hard in the weeks leading up to the
Emerson performance to focus on the
transitions between songs, and it was
apparent in the seamless changes.
“It was the tightest [show yet] on
multiple levels,” said saxophonist and
acoustic guitarist Jake Fleming, who
put the Emerson set list together.
“We set our intention toward it. I
think it paid off. The way the show
was designed, our transitions were
tighter.”
Dave Walker and Jerry Mullen, of
the Fossils, joined the band both
nights for “Dogs of War” and the
“Comfortably Numb” encore. Walker
lives in Virginia City and was a
vocalist for rock legends Fleetwood
Mac and Savoy Brown.
“I got to sing some of my favorite
Pink Floyd tunes, and got to ad
lib,” Walker said after the first
night’s performance. The energy he
and Mullen brought to the stage
wrenched many of those still seated
out of their chairs. Mullen ripped
searing solos while Walker – with
his gray ponytail, rose-tinted glasses
and long leather coat – belted out the
Floyd classics while shaking his fists
in the air.
Friday’s show closed with rhythm
guitarist Dustin Tucker throwing
high-fives and fist bumps to the
zealous fans up front, as lead
guitarist Luke Flansburg thanked the
Emerson, and the sound and light
technicians as if accepting a Grammy.
If the Recording Academy gave out
awards for tribute bands, Pinky
and the Floyd would clean up the
golden gramophones for these latest
performances.
Look for a feature article on Pinky and
The Floyd in the next issue of Explore
Big Sky.
Pinky is a tribute band that leaves no detail – musical or visual – of the Pink Floyd
experience untended to. Vocalist Krista Barnett, pictured here, puts the final touches on
her makeup prior to the March 7 show.
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Poets laureate visit WMPAC
Name student poetry contest winners
Ophir students’ poems hang in the reception area outside the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center. WMPAC helped sponsor the poetry contest, which was judged
on March 8 by the Montana and Colorado poets laureate. PHOTO BY JOSEPH T. O’CONNOR
BIG SKY – Griffin House’s fingers danced along the
piano keys on the evening of March 8, as families
and poets of all ages sampled hors d’oeuvres, poetry
fortune cookies and Ophir School students’ poetry
hanging on the walls of the reception area at the
Warren Miller Performing Arts Center.
Called the Poets’ Congress, wordsmiths and
musicians from around Montana and the Mountain
West took turns on stage treating the crowd to two
of the oldest forms of communication.
“Music and poetry can affect your mood,” said
Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland, one of
the featured poets that night and also an English
professor at Montana State University-Billings.
“They reach us on an emotional level.”
Between readings by nine poets, musicians Martha
Scanlan and Jon Neufeld stunned the audience with
a haunting sound and lyrics born from Scanlan’s
recent experience living and working on a Montana
ranch.
‘The best words in their best order’
Ophir School poetry contest winners
FIRST PLACE
WORDS TO WIND
BY ABI HOGAN, 8TH GRADE
Give my words to the wind
Let them fly away
To a world
Where they are
Translated
Spoken and
Taught
Starlight shines over us
letting us know
That above the vast ocean
They sparkle and glow.
Where their meanings aren’t judged
By the size of my jeans
But by my orthography
“The audience was incredibly receptive and
focused,” said John Zirkle, Artistic Director for
WMPAC, calling the crowd’s effort “intentional
listening.”
The evening was simple, peaceful and rewarding,
literally. After intermission, Haaland and David
Mason, Colorado’s poet laureate, announced the
winners of the first Ophir School poetry contest.
Where I’m not obsequious
Tending to your every need
Believing myself a coat rack
For you to hang what you please
Ninth grader Ellie Quackenbush won first place,
eighth grader Abi Hogan took second, and fourth
grader Olivia Bulis brought home third. Before the
show, Quackenbush put the ancient art of poetry
into perspective.
We shrunk our stomachs for you
We held in our words for you
But now, I let them fly
And believe me
Your hubris thoughts are vacuous
Joining Haaland and Mason on stage were Seattle,
Wash.-based poet Dave Caserio, Montana slam
poet Linds Sanders, and Henry “Hank” Real Bird, a
rancher, educator and poet of Crow descent.
The evening heralded music and words, in the form
of poetry. Before reading William Butler Yeats’
“Brown Penny,” Mason summed up why humans
crave verse: “We reach for poetry because we need
language.”
STARLIGHT
BY ELIZABETH QUACKENBUSH, 9TH GRADE
A world where I’m not a natural resource
Harvested
And sold to millions
On magazines
In photo shoots
“You write about stuff that you care about,” she
said. “If people like it, that’s good, and if people
don’t like it, that’s good too, because [poetry] comes
from the heart.”
SECOND PLACE
So take my words
Wind
Share them wind
Let them know, we won’t lose
Wind
They give us hope
The moon lights the horizon
As we dream wide awake
We begin to wizen.
The morning light
Drowns out the dreaming
And back in reality
We keep on believing
That the dreams will come back
The peace will have found us
The moon in the black
As starlight surrounds us.
THIRD PLACE
HOW TO TORTURE YOUR TEACHER
BY OLIVIA BULIS, 4TH GRADE
Bounce erasers off your desk,
Oh yes, oh yes, they’ll make a mess!
Chew gum in class; don’t spit it out,
Plug the sink and clear the drought.
In science class, always take a nap,
In reading have your pencil go tippity -tap -tap.
During lunch make sure to throw your food,
And while in math, be exceptionally rude.
Put a beetle in your teacher’s hair,
That will give her quite a scare.
On the last day of school, pretend to be extra nice,
And send her home with summer lice!
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BY MARIA WYLLIE
Find out what tunes we’re bumping! In “Big Sky Beats,” Explore Big Sky staff and
guests suggest a soundtrack for a day on the mountain, and guests have a chance to
share what they listen to when they shred.
When interviewing artists, asking them who their biggest musical influences are
is an obvious question. And, more often than not, the Beatles are typically on that
list. Regardless of musical taste or preference, there’s no denying the foursome
had an immense impact on rock ‘n’ roll music and culture worldwide.
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covered by other artists spanning various genres including bluegrass, blues,
classical and rock, offering a little insight as to how the Beatles’ music influenced
their own musical career.
1. “With a Little Help From My Friends,” Joe Cocker
2. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Feat. India.Arie & Yo-Yo Ma),” Santana
3. “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” Pearl Jam
4. “Blackbird,” Sarah McLachlan
5. “Helter Skelter,” Motley Crue
6. “Eleanor Rigby,” Vitamin String Quartet
7. “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” Los Lonely Boys
8. “Strawberry Fields Forever,” Richie Havens
9. “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” Sam Bush Band
10. “It Won’t Be Long,” Evan Rachel Wood
American Life in Poetry:
Column 469
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
The love between parents can be wonderful and mysterious to their children.
Robert Hedin, a Minnesota poet and the director of The Anderson Center at
Tower View in Red Wing, does a fine job of capturing some of that wonder in
this short poem.
My Mother’s Hats
By Robert Hedin
She kept them high on the top shelf,
In boxes big as drums—
Bright, crescent-shaped boats
With little fishnets dangling down—
And wore them with her best dress
To teas, coffee parties, department stores.
What a lovely catch, my father used to say,
Watching her sail off into the afternoon waters.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation
(poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the
Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright
©2013 by Robert Hedin from his most recent book of poems, The Light Under the
Door, Red Dragonfly Press, 2013. Poem reprinted by permission of Robert Hedin
and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2014 by The Poetry Foundation. The
introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited
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Water quality monitoring on the Gallatin
BY KRISTIN GARDNER
BLUE WATER TASK FORCE
The back of the truck is crammed with snowshoes,
ski poles, waders, a cooler, bottles, neoprene gloves,
electronic devices, a pick ax and a thermos of hot
tea. These are the tools for a day collecting water
quality data on the Gallatin River, as part of the
Blue Water Task Force’s Community Water Quality
Monitoring Program.
Water quality is an ecological indicator of our
watersheds’ health, similar to drawing blood and
running an analysis of cholesterol, blood counts
or tryglycerides to glean perspective on human
health. Under this volunteer program, BWTF has
been collecting water quality data for 14 years, even
during the winter.
Although winter monitoring presents challenges,
it is critical because it reveals clues to the river’s
relationship with the land, and vice versa. Much of
this information is unavailable at other times of year
when it’s more appealing to be poking around in the
river.
Land influences are typically most visible now
because winter streamflow and chemistry are
mainly influenced by groundwater. There is
minimal dilution from snowmelt, and algae is not
yet consuming nutrients and diminishing their
levels.
So out we go, trudging through deep snow, picking
away enough ice to make a conduit to the river.
Through a small hole in the ice, we measure water
chemistry (temperature, pH, turbidity, E.coli,
coliform, chloride, conductivity, total dissolved
solids), and bring back samples to the lab to analyze
nitrogen, E.coli and coliform levels.
We collect this information four times a year – in
December, April, June and August. During the
summer, we collect data on streamflow, aquatic
insects and algae.
The BWTF stream data doesn’t sit on a shelf (or a
website) and collect dust. Historically, a number of
groups have used it to assess and track the health of
the Gallatin River watershed. They include state
and county agencies, university researchers, other
watershed organizations, and Ophir School science
teachers.
I was first introduced to BWTF and to Big Sky in
2005, in this very way. A Montana State University
graduate student at the time, I was searching for a
viable research question for my doctoral work in
hydrology.
My fate changed when I threw together a plot of
stream water nitrate values collected by the BWTF
and others since 1971, alongside the number of
residences in Big Sky during that time period.
The two lines tracked each other almost perfectly,
showing larger amounts of nitrate over time.
Volunteers participate in a community water quality
monitoring with Blue Water Task Force. PHOTOS COURTESY
OF BWTF
This simple plot was the catalyst that brought in
more than $400,000 in state and federal grants
to study nitrogen dynamics in the Big Sky area.
This research resulted in numerous publications
in peer reviewed science journals, shedding light
on important questions in hydrology and stream
biogeochemistry in mountain streams.
It also provided critical information for the state
water quality planning process (Total Maximum
Daily Load Program) in the Upper Gallatin.
Without the information provided by the BWTF
data, this research would likely never have
materialized.
Currently, the BWTF monitoring data is being used
to plan for and develop multiple projects to improve
water quality and fish habitat. This will have longterm positive effects on the health of the river and
on our community.
There still is much to learn about the Gallatin. As
our community continues to grow and change, it
will be critical to continue to assess and track the
river’s health to protect one of our most treasured
assets.
Kristin Gardner is Executive Director of the Blue
Water Task Force in Big Sky. All BWTF data and
associated reports are available for public viewing at
bluewatertaskforce.org.
Volunteer for BWTF
The next scheduled BWTF
Community Water Quality
Monitoring is Friday, April 4. The
information collected will be
used to protect and keep local
water resources clean and
healthy, and you might even
have fun and learn something
at the same time.
“This is one of the most beautiful
places in the country, perhaps
the world,” said BWTF board
member Ron Bowlin. “What
a great place to be outdoors
and contribute positively to our
community… Volunteerism is the
essence of our American culture
and the seed of our greatness.”
Interested in volunteering for
this event, or for one in June,
September or December?
Contact Kristin Gardner at
(406) 993-2519 or kristin@
bluewatertaskforce.org.
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Section 4:
OUTDOORS &
RESORTS
Ghosts in the rockies p. 49
Word from the Resorts p. 62
Grand Targhee Resort
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It’s hard to find a better view of the iconic Grand Teton than looking east from Targhee. PHOTO COURTESY OF GRAND TARGHEE RESORT
BY BRIAN NILES
I’ve always been a sucker for laid back, mom and
pop-type ski resorts, so I’ve always remembered old
Leon Weston loading me and a bud on the Blackfoot
double chair, when I first went to Grand Targhee
12 years ago. Weston, famously known as “Slim,”
sported a cowboy hat and a smile of gold.
Slim worked for Targhee since its beginning in
1969, was featured in numerous Warren Miller
ski films and ski magazines, and won the hearts of
Targhee visitors and locals alike. He passed away
this past February, but will forever be known as the
face of Targhee.
Visiting the resort this winter, I found that the
down-home, Western charm Slim embodied is still
very much alive there, as is the quality of skiing on
its 2,600-plus acres of terrain.
Just outside Driggs, Idaho, Grand Targhee Resort is
situated on the western flanks of the Teton Range.
The views there are as big as the dumps. Averaging
more than 500 inches of cold Teton powder every
year, it currently has the largest base depth in the
Northern Rockies.
Spread out over three mountain peaks, and five
chairs – with no lift lines, mind you – there is something for everyone. From the challenging chutes
off the Sacajawea chair, to the corduroy accessed by
the high speed Dreamcatcher quad, to the Kids Fun
Zone of Shoshone, you can get your hoots and hollers just about anywhere at Targhee.
And after ripping lap after lap on the Blackfoot
Traverse all day, there’s no better way to ease your
burning legs than to hit one of the three watering
holes in the Village Plaza.
On a powder day
Take a little hike over to the Sacajawea chair from
the base area. Hit it early and warm up on Bird
Woman and Northern Lights, which are perfectlyspaced, gladed tree runs. Feeling adventurous? Take
a run down the Toilet Bowl then head back to the
base area and the Dreamcatcher quad. From the top,
open it up in the Happy Hunting Grounds, then duck
into the tighter trees of Nasty Gash. From there, cruise
back to Sacajawea or down to Dreamcatcher. Repeat
until the beer calls you in at day’s end.
Cat Skiing
You’ve hit it just right: 14 inches of new snow, 15
degrees, and the skies are blue. One of the hallmarks of
Targhee is the Snowcat Adventure on Peaked Mountain. More than 600 acres of steep tree pitches, gladed
cruisers and open bowls await groups of 12. The views
of the Tetons are breathtaking, and the snow is mind
blowing. Full- and half-day adventures are available, as
well as lodging packages.
Chow
No better way to start the morning then at
Snorkel’s Bistro in the base area, serving locally
roasted coffee. Grab a breakfast sando, or choose
from the variety of baked-from-scratch pastries,
as well as a full deli menu at lunchtime. The food
is as vibrant as the staff, and if you’re lucky,
you’ll get to rock out to some ‘80s classics while
you dine.
If you’re looking to wine and dine, the Branding
Iron restaurant is the place to be. It’s Targhee’s
best-kept secret, offering an upscale atmosphere
that is both casual and family friendly. Chef Matt
Renshaw’s creations will make your mouth water.
A full wine list accompanies an eclectic menu of
succulent pastas to local favorites like the bison flat
iron steak. Oh, and their après is good too!
Aprés
Step out of your skis and into the Trap Bar for a local
Sweetgrass APA from Grand Teton Brewing. This
classic après haven is known for its live music and
Wydaho Nachos… try them, you won’t be sorry. Cozy
up to the bar to watch the latest ski movie, or yack with
the locals and the friendly staff about your favorite run
of the day.
For the kids
Why wouldn’t you want to bring the family? Kids 12
and under eat, ski and stay for free with a paying adult.
The Kids Fun Zone terrain park is an ideal place for future Olympians to find their stride. With its own trail
map, this zone has fun terrain features and run names
like Bird Brains and Gremlin Gulch.
After skiing, the “Kids Night Out” program is
designed to let kids be kids, and parents to be, well,
adults. Care providers entertain kids with dinner,
crafts and other fun, while mom and dad can have an
evening to themselves.
Stay
Targhee has three slopeside accommodations that
get skiers out on the mountain as quick as possible.
The Sioux Lodge is perfect for a couple’s weekend or
bringing the whole family. Enjoy comfortable, clean
accommodations ranging from studio suites to full
two-bedroom units. Definitely take advantage of the
pool and hot tubs across the way. Check
grandtarghee.com for the latest ski/stay deals throughout the season.
Year-round fun
Grand Targhee is known for year-round activities, and
the mountain offers some fantastic sight seeing opportunities as well as lift-accessed mountain biking. If you
haven’t seen the annual Targhee Bluegrass Festival,
consider making plans for Aug. 8-10 to get your
dance on for three days of music on multiple stages.
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Stay slopeside to enjoy all the après Targhee’s Village Plaza has to offer. PHOTO COURTESY OF GRAND TARGHEE RESORT
24 hours in Jackson
Lovin’ you that Targhee pow, but headed over the
hill for some good times in Jackson? Here are a few
tips to get your ducks in a row without having to
sell the farm.
PHOTO BY BRIAN NILES
Targhee’s Snowcat Adventure equals pristine pow. You’d better eat your Wheaties.
PHOTO COURTESY OF GRAND TARGHEE RESORT
Ski. Make sure you hit up either Jackson Hole
Mountain Resort if you want big vert (think 4,105
feet accessed via the tram), and hit any of the tree
shots off Sublette, or Paintbrush from the Thunder
chairlift, or lap Snow King Resort if you want some
steep, down home fun (it’s wicked, we promise, and
you can buy a two-hour ticket for $20).
Aprés. Still rolling around JHMR? Try the Spur,
the Village Café or the Mangy Moose. So many
choices…
Eat. Head downtown and hit up Local on the town
square. Sit in the bar and order a mouth-watering,
grass-fed Local Burger that you can double or
triple patty without breaking the bank. Add brie,
you won’t be disappointed.
Drink. Located inside the Pink Garter Theater,
the Rose is classy and welcoming, with delicious
cocktails.
Stay. The Anvil Motel is cheap ($66-77/night), clean
and right downtown. After skiing hard all day and
enjoying Jackson’s nightlife well past your bedtime,
the Anvil is the perfect respite until you’re ready to
do it all over again. Plus there’s free coffee in the
morning. Call them at (307) 733-3668.
-EMILY WOLFE AND TYLER ALLEN
The Anvil Motel on North Cache St. is ideally located to enjoy all that Jackson Hole has to
offer. PHOTO BY NATE MYLOTT
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Will wolverines be listed as a threatened species?
15 individuals, wolverines have
generally survived their conflict
with humans.
“It’s important to point out that
the biology suggests that number
is probably the same as it was 500
years ago,” Inman said.
After floundering through chestdeep snow to gather data on animals
that can be hard to find even
while wearing radio collars, Inman
and his co-workers in the WCS
study found their most troubling
characteristic, given current
climate trends, was just how well
adapted wolverines are for cold
temperatures and snow.
Dr. Robert Inman conducting a telemetry study in the Spanish Peaks PHOTO BY TONY MCCUE
BY SEAN FORBES
What he found was a portrait of a
unique and uncommon creature.
As difficult as it might be to
chase Bigfoot through the wilds,
searching for Gulo gulo – more
commonly known as a wolverine –
might actually be a bigger challenge
in the higher elevation rock, snow
and ice of the Northern Rockies.
“They are basically born wearing
snow shoes,” Inman said,
explaining that the 20- to 30pound animals have paws four
inches wide and up to six inches
long. This allows them to travel
efficiently in rugged, mountainous
terrain, particularly in deep snow.
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The picture emerging from a recent
study – led by Dr. Robert Inman,
the new Executive Director of
the Craighead Institute – paints
wolverines as solitary travelers
patrolling territories between
300-750 square miles, hunting,
scavenging and caching the leftovers
in nature’s refrigerator along the
way.
The first telemetry study of
wolverines in the Greater
Yellowstone, the decade-long project
that Dr. Inman led while with the
Wildlife Conservation Society,
focused on the Madison Range
between the Spanish Peaks and
Hebgen Lake, the Gravelly Range,
the Centennial Mountains and south
into Grand Teton National Park.
Capturing 40 animals with the use
of about 100 trap sites, Inman was
looking for “everything” – their food
habits, home range size, habitat use,
survival rates, causes of mortality,
reproductive rates and den sites.
One study subject known as M304
traveled 412 km from Grand Teton
to Pocatello, Idaho, and back in
just over two weeks, and a short
time later made the roundtrip to
Gardiner, Montana and back in a
week.
“When we pulled the data off the
GPS collar, we opened up the map
that has the points on there, and
our jaws dropped,” Inman said. “It
really opened our eyes to, wow,
these animals are capable of moving
incredible distances over short
periods of time, especially young
dispersing individuals.”
“People hardly ever see wolverines
even though they’re around. When
there are five of them in the entire
Madison Range, you can begin to
see why that’s the case. The odds of
running into one are slim to none.”
Those odds are largely responsible
for the numerous petitions
submitted to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service in the last 19
years seeking protection for
wolverines, which in turn have
raised the demand for information
and prompted studies like Inman’s.
With his effort and the listing
process wrapping up in August
2014, many expect that the
animals will be added to the list of
threatened species – but perhaps
not for reasons one would expect.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN
The researchers did all the capture
work during winter, Inman said,
because “if we put baits out in the
summer trying to catch wolverines,
we’d catch bears instead of
wolverines.”
Like many other species considered
predators around the turn of the
20th century, wolverines were
nearly eliminated from the Lower
48 by poisoning practices and
unregulated trapping common at
the time. Recovering remarkably
well – after poisoning practices
were eliminated and trapping
regulated– wolverines again occupy
much of their historic terrain in the
northern Rockies.
Yet even during warmer seasons,
wolverines, the largest members of
the weasel family, remain elusive.
Despite population estimates for
some of the study’s mountain
ranges falling between five and
Wolverines today inhabit a
desolate, delicate niche where snow
and cold temperatures prevail much
of the year, like Canada, Alaska,
the high elevations of the Cascade
Mountains of Washington and
Oregon, and the Northern Rockies.
Warming temperatures could force
the animals to compete more for
precious food resources with other
carnivores that access the highest
elevations if they are not covered
in deep snow and with insects and
bacteria.
Young wolverines are born in
February, and snow is a factor in their
reproductive cycle. Females deliver
one to two cubs every other year in
a den beneath boulders, logs and a
blanket of snow.
No one can say for certain what
would happen without the protection
of winter.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Assuming wolverines will be
protected under the U.S. Endangered
Species Act, and that the climate will
remain a contentious issue, Inman’s
work will be essential in helping
define what comes next.
In 2004 and 2008, for example, his
work was cited in the creation of
management units for the Montana
trapping season.
“A lot of [our changes have] been
based on research, and the most
recent stuff was changed based on
his work, in terms of identifying…
how many animals and what harvest
rates should be,” said Brian Giddings,
Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks
Furbearer Coordinator.
Federal Endangered Species Act
protection would eliminate the
trapping season.
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With the details of these actions still to be formed, Inman
addressed the issue of funding through the example of the
Pittman-Robertson Act – which puts money generated through
the sale of firearms and archery equipment into a state coffer
designated for conservation projects.
“It’s been the most successful model for reestablishing populations
and managing wildlife anywhere in the world,” he said.
Having revived more prominent game such as whitetail deer, black
bear and wild turkey, the expansion of that system – to include
other gear like tents and packs – could have the same beneficial
effect for conserving non-game species like the wolverine.
“Society said that it wants to conserve species when it enacted
the endangered species act,” Inman said. “But until we develop a
dedicated funding system that enables us to do the work that must
be done to conserve habitats and monitor populations, we are just
talking.
“Sportsmen figured out how to do that in 1937 with the PittmanRobertson Act. We just need to follow that example and get it done
for the broader range of species that we now ask our state wildlife
agencies to steward.”
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BY RACHEL ANDERSON
definitely be running to the pub again next
year.
BOZEMAN – With the luck of the Irish,
Pub 317’s Run to the Pub 10-kilometer
and half-marathon race on St. Patrick’s
Day, saw 2,693 registered participants and
raised a chunk of change for local community-based nonprofits.
At the finish line, runners and spectators of all ages enjoyed themselves in the
blocked off area of downtown Bozeman
with music, dancing and smiles of accomplishment.
On March 15, runners raced to the finish
line through downtown Bozeman in a
spectrum of green costumes. An elaborate
array of spandex, tutus and multicolored
wigs filled the streets.
After completing the race, each competitor
of legal drinking age received a cold beer.
In addition, all who raced were entered
for a chance to win an all-inclusive trip to
Dublin, Ireland. Two winners were selected for both the 10k and half marathon.
Slightly overcast clouds and semi-cold
temperatures in the morning made for
good running conditions in Montana’s
often-unpredictable spring weather. Early
morning transportation by bus dropped
10k runners off outside of Bozeman on
South 3rd Road and half marathoners on
Patterson Road, where a gunshot signaled
the start of each race.
In its eighth year, the event is steadily
increasing in popularity, and has grown by
25 percent annually, according to Run to
the Pub’s official website.
Bozemanite Anna Yardley, 31, entered the
10k after friends told her about the event.
The $10,000 in proceeds from this year’s
race went to the Bozeman Area Community Foundation, which disperses to local
area nonprofits.
After crossing the finish line on Main Street in Bozeman, runners gather
while actively keeping hydrated. PHOTO BY RACHEL ANDERSON
Race sponsor Casey Jermyn, owner of
Bozeman Running Company, likes that
the race draws so many people to the
downtown area. The event is sure to keep
drawing bigger numbers, Jermyn said.
And national press like a 2013 Runner’s
World magazine feature that voted Run to
the Pub as the second-best half marathon
in the U.S. won’t hurt.
Who doesn’t want to run, drink and be
merry?
“All the response I’d heard about the race
was positive,” said Yardley. “It sounded
fun and challenging.” After beating her
personal goal this year, Yardley said she’ll
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Big Sky Locals Fishing Report
By Gallatin River Guides General Manager, Jimmy Armijo-Grover
man need to be scoping out pods of rising fish. Also, there have been
a few baetis (Blue Winged Olive) mayfly sightings in the Gallatin
canyon and that will only increase in the next few weeks. If you see
these adult dry flies, fish a Purple Parachute Adams in sizes 1620. Be sure to have good dry fly floatant, such as Fly-Agra or Loon
Aquel. To achieve the most drag-free drift, try what our guide use:
Rio Suppleflex tippet and TroutHunter Finesse leaders.
Fishing on the Gallatin and lower Madison has put a lot of smiles on
anglers’ faces recently and should continue through March. There’s
no reason to get out there super-early as the better fishing starts
later in the morning and continues well into the afternoon. The
weather predictors are calling for some colder temps so getting out
when it’s a bit warmer just makes more sense for you and the fish.
With the cooler weather on-tap we may see some overcast which
bodes well for dry fly fishing.
And we are finally starting to see more consistent midge activity on
both the Gallatin and lower Madison, so you die-hard dry fly fisher-
Although some dry fly fishing can be had, if your goal is to catch
fish consistently, fishing weighted nymphs under a strike indicator is the name of the game. Fishing pools that are 2-5’ are most
productive, but some fish are being found in shallow riffles at
the head of pools. A popular rig right now is a size 10-12 coffee
and black Pat’s Rubber Legs with a Fire Bead Sow Bug of Fire
Bead Scud/Czech nymph. Other productive patterns are the Zebra
Midge, and beadhead Prince and Pheasant Tail nymphs.
Beadhead Pheasant Tail
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If you need to throw streamers just remember to keep it low and
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March madness!
Spring streamer fishing requires adjustments,
but the rewards are worth it
BY PAT STRAUB
EXPLORE BIG SKY FISHING COLUMNIST
Streamer junkies, bugger bandits, Zonker zombies – nicknames for streamer anglers are as clever
as the people fishing them. Even the fly names are
bodacious: the Wooly Bugger, Home Invader, and
Sculpzilla, among others. But the angler dedicated
to using streamers and baitfish imitations is committed to one thing – finding big trout.
Because spring hatches are sporadic and consist of
smaller insects, anglers seeking larger fish must
commit to fishing for larger fish. This requires dedication to some new tactics.
Length matters. As a kid prospecting our local
rivers, any fly larger than a size 6 was big. Today,
streamer junkies measure their flies in inches rather
than hook size. A general rule to follow: the smaller
the water you’re fishing, the smaller the streamer.
Flies four inches and longer are now the norm,
especially on larger rivers like the Yellowstone and
Missouri. Trout rarely become trophies by eating
size 18 mayfly nymphs.
Show your colors. This debate rages on, and the
more beer fishing guides drink, the more theories
are created. My thoughts on color: if something is
working, stick with it and remember the conditions
in which it worked. I’ll fish a streamer pattern for
about 30 minutes with no action before I consider
changing colors. Generally, on a sunny day use a
brightly colored pattern and one of my standbys is:
the dirtier the water, the darker the streamer.
Adjust the fly on the fly. Back when Michael Jordan started winning NBA titles, a friend and I were
floating the Blackfoot River anticipating the salmon
fly hatch. The river was high and muddy, and the
few large trout we caught all ate six-inch-long yellow streamers. But this was only after we took some
butt material and tied “stinger” hooks off the bend
of the single hook. Before that, we were getting a lot
of chases and short-strikes – when a fish bites the
tail of the fly – and adding a second hook solved the
problem. If tying a stinger hook is not an option,
trim the fly so the fish gets hook instead of fur.
Slow and deep. This time of year, most big trout
are in deep, slow water. However, the water temp is
cold enough to keep their metabolism low so they’re
unlikely to chase food. It’s essential to keep these
big flies at the depth of the fish as long as possible.
Use heavily weighted flies, sinking leaders, sink-tip
or sinking lines, and allow the fly to drop as deep as
possible before you begin your retrieve. When fishing from a boat, cast perpendicular to the boat’s line
of drift or slightly behind. Retrieve the fly back to
boat in a rhythm that’s a few paces slower than the
current. Some veteran Yellowstone River guides call
this the “bow and go” technique.
Up and at ‘em. Upstream cast and retrieve. When
wade fishing, utilize the same principle of the bow
and go and cast upstream as far as you can. Let the
fly sink as deep as possible before beginning your
retrieve. Match the retrieve to the speed of the current – not so fast that the fly is pulled from the run
and not so slow that the fly snags.
Drive it home. When a fish hits your streamer
with a heart-pounding whack, set the hook with
authority—get angry for a second. The fly is big
and if the trout is a dandy, its mouth will be tough
and bony. The time to be delicate is when releasing
the fish, not when it hits your six-inch-long Sex
Dungeon streamer.
Like getting angry on the hook-set, successful
streamer fishing requires a special mindset. The
first adjustment is redefining success, or better yet,
delaying gratification until a two-foot trout comes
to net. And two-foot trout are rarely gifted to an angler; they are earned. Springtime is ideal for fishing
that gets your hands dirty – anticipation is high and
summer crowds are a long way out.
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Frugal Fly Fisher, Montana On The Fly, and the
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About Fly Fishing* *but were afraid to ask. He and his
wife own Gallatin River Guides in Big Sky.
Even rainbows can be aggressive. On a special stretch of a local river, this big hen swiped at a seven-inch-long articulated bunny-fur streamer. PHOTO BY PAT STRAUB
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Upper body position
BY DAN EGAN
compounded when hands drop or
linger behind between turns.
Proper upper body position is the
key to good skiing. With it, your
lower body naturally moves into
the angles needed for solid ski
technique.
To correct it, keep your arms
extended and reach downhill for
each pole plant. Focus on your pole
plants, reach your hands down the
hill, and snap your hip to your hands
as you initiate the next turn. This
keeps your upper body over your
feet. By doing it between turns, it
causes your upper body to realign
itself, which then allows the lower
body to find its natural position and
remain in balance.
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Skis are designed to accelerate. If
you carve a turn correctly, your feet
will jet out in front of your body.
When you don’t realign your body
over your feet, your speed will
increase with each turn, and your
only defense will be to skid your
tails at the end of the turn to keep
any sense of control.
If, on the other hand, the upper
body is positioned over the feet,
with hands and shoulders slightly
forward, your feet follow your body
downhill, creating the proper lower
body position for edge pressure.
Among the many benefits of this
stance are less fatigue and more
control in a variety of terrain.
Many people ski in a neutral stance,
or slightly aft of center, with their
shoulders over their heels. This is
You’ll find that your speed will
become consistent while you gain
more control and confidence.
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has appeared in 12 Warren Miller
Ski films and countless others. Today
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Lone Mountain Ranch
The Nordic trails at Lone Mountain Ranch close April 5, but there is still a lot of
skiing left this season before then. Enjoy the additional hour of daylight in the
evenings and cross country ski or snowshoe the trails until 7:30 p.m.
The Ranch Saloon hosts live music every night except for Sundays and Wednesdays, so kick back and rest your tired legs with friends and free tunes.
Experience the convergence of yoga and Nordic skate skiing on Sunday, March
23, by applying principles of alignment and self-awareness to improve your snow
sliding. The yoga and ski retreat begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends with lunch in the
LMR dining room at 1 p.m.
Also on March 23, Lone Mountain Ranch hosts 70 attendees at its annual Eagle
Mount event, for a day of cross country skiing, snowshoeing and lunch.
Keep those skinny skis waxed!
Bohart Ranch
BY KATIE SMITH
LONE PEAK PR
Sunny skies and plenty of snow have meant prime spring skiing at Bohart for
the past few weeks. Conditions have been perfect for touring through groomed
meadows with beautiful views of Ross Peak and Sacajawea in the distance.
The Early Bird 2015 Spring Pass Sale is March 16-22, which allows you to ski the
remainder of the 2014 season as well.
Come enjoy the final day of the season on March 30. It’ll be a dog day afternoon
when all skiers are invited to bring their canine friends to ski with them from
noon to closing.
Big Sky Resort
The final month of the season is upon Big Sky. Springtime brings all
types of weather from sunny skies to heavy snow storms. With the
warmer temps making every day enjoyable, make sure to charge it hard in these
upcoming weeks.
With the end of the season quickly approaching, make sure not to miss out on
any of Big Sky Resort’s highlighted events.
On March 29, Pop Chips presents the 11th annual Dummy Jump in the Mountain
Village Base Area. Help build a one of a kind dummy, watch it soar, and win
prizes.
Another family favorite at Big Sky Resort is the Snowshoe Shuffle. Show some
love for our four-legged friends in the community on April 12, and experience a
torch-lit snowshoe hike, après chili dinner, live music and a raffle that benefits
Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter.
A phenomenal season it has been, and will continue to be, here in Big Sky. –R.A.
Rendezvous Ski Trails
Consistent snowfall throughout the winter has made for impeccable conditions
on all 35 km of trails at Rendezvous. Skiing on perfect groomers, any Nordic
enthusiast will feel sublime surrounded by the vast landscape of open meadows
and tall pine trees in West Yellowstone.
Day passes are available at several locations around town including the Chamber
of Commerce Visitor’s Center, Bud Lilly’s Trout Shop, Freeheel & Wheel, and at
the trailhead.
The final day of grooming at Rendezvous, on March 31, is quickly approaching.
So grab your skis and poles, and get out to glide through paradise. –R.A.
Freshies on Lone Moose are always a good bet during a powder day.
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Bridger Bump-Off freestyle comp is March 23
BY EMILY WOLFE
Turns out, freestyle skiing is alive and
well at Bridger Bowl. Nowhere is this
more evident than at the Bridger BumpOff, which started in the late 1970s and
is set for March 23 on Bronco Face.
Held in a jam format and open to the
public, the mogul event pits competitors in heats against each other, with
divisions for alpine skiing, telemarking,
snowboarding, juniors and adults.
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Statewide however, freestyle has shrunk,
with the only United States Ski Association-Northern Division teams here and
in Missoula, Zetzer said. Because of this,
local kids travel to places like White Pass,
Wash., Sun Valley, Idaho and Deer Valley,
Utah to compete.
A fundraiser for BSF, the Bump-Off is
also a way to get the community involved,
spread awareness about the team, and to
find new participants.
The goal is to have all athletes skiing
several runs, according to Mike Papke,
the head Bridger Ski Foundation coach
and director of its freestyle program.
The event typically has had 30-40 competitors, but with recent growth Papke expects
the number of participants to double.
“The vibe is a throwback to our roots,”
says Kristin Zetzer, a mother of two
BSF freestyle skiers and one of the 2014
Bump-Off organizers. “Old school mogul skiing is encouraged, and this season
having a ‘super heroes’ theme should
bring a nice, fun community feel.”
BSF’s freestyle team has grown 63 percent
in the last three years since Papke took over
as director, Zetzer said, explaining that
many kids come to ski under his renowned
tutelage. Papke coached two-time Olympian Heather McPhie on her way to the
international circuit.
Zetzer explained that former U.S. Ski
Team member Rusty Squire founded the
event in the ‘70s, which Tom Cook and
Johnny “Mogul” Mayer took over from
him in the early ‘80s before BSF began
organizing it. “I would love to challenge
the founders to get out there and show
their stuff,” she said.
The organization is currently raising
money for a jump bag, which would allow
them to train year-round.
The BSF freestyle teams currently have 89
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