Ok, MG readers who hate The Man and all things corporate and branded… some friends sent us this piece of unbranded video. We like it. What do you think? PAUSE 3 from PAUSE on Vimeo.
<Ed’s Note: Welcome to a new department here at Mountain Gazette—Postcards. Each week, MG contributing editor and Breckenridge local Devon O’Neil will tease us with an image and a few choice words from his travels across the West, the globe and his backyard. Wish we were here.> Last month, two days into a 96-hour deluge [...]
COMING BACK SLOWLY By Alan Stark The wind and snow whip around the parking lot at the East Portal of Moffat Tunnel. I’m here with three other patrollers from Bryan Mountain Nordic Ski Patrol (BMNSP). We’re pulling gear and packs out of our cars and shaking our heads at how cold it is for [...]
Great news. We just heard that M. John Fayhee’s latest book, Smoke Signals: Wayward Journeys Through the Old Heart of the New West, has been selected as a finalist of the 2013 Colorado Book Awards in the General Nonfiction category. The bulk of the book appeared in previous form in the Mountain Gazette over the years. [...]
Well, the major league baseball season is underway, and even up here in the still-winter mountains we can appreciate the eternal promise spring that brings with it. It seems an appropriate time to dig up a poem about the game and one of our favorite mountain towns. Missoula Softball Tournament By Richard Hugo From The [...]
Thirty years later, legendary big-wall climber Eric Kohl heads out to retry his first route, which has now fallen into obscurity. By Chris Van Leuven “It’s got some cobwebs on it,” says Eric as we look up at the 30-foot boulder split with an overhanging, leaning finger-to-hand crack. We’ve spent the past hour hiking up [...]
A high percentage of those reading these words are still of an age where you correctly observe about yourself that you are indeed “bulletproof.” You can fall off a cliff and your only concern will be if the one-hitter in your shirt pocket managed to survive the impact. A high percentage of those reading these [...]
