Outdoors

Yellowstone ski newbies discover awesomeness of park skiing

Park County has some terrific cross-country ski areas, but it’s pretty hard pressed to beat Yellowstone National Park’s offerings, something my family and I discovered by accident recently. About 10

The religion of solid ground while driving over lake ice on a sultry winter’s day

If you find yourself in a car careening across the ice of a frozen lake this winter, you may do well to keep the door ajar, if just for the

Reflections on wall tent life

Ibought the tent for 600 bucks off an old outfitter toward the end of my season as innkeeper at the Crazy Mountain Inn in Martinsdale. It measured 12 feet wide

Out of the wind, into the wild

At the trailhead for the Lamar River Trail on Sunday, a couple men sat and watched three moose resting by the river. They saw our skis and told us to

Hunting for my first Christmas tree

The sun was already behind the foothills of the Absaroka Mountains when we drove up Mill Creek Road in search of a Christmas tree. My life has been in flux

The Quest of the Huck Finn

Two years ago, during a late fall float on the Yellowstone River, a crazy idea was born. David Zollinger and his crew, including Mark and Kim Manseau, Ryan Early, and

Pondering the necessity of bird dogs willing to put up with owners

I heard a story about a bird dog that couldn’t be trained, and usually ran off flushing pheasants and Huns a quarter mile away in the wrong direction. One day

Outdoor recreation films to show in Livingston

As winter sets in, people are left with two options: Bundle up and get outside or head inside, get cozy and watch a movie. On Thursday, Timber Trails’ 12th annual

Region 2 hunting update

EDITORS NOTE: Region 3, which includes Park County, does not have current statistics. Big game harvest in west-central Montana maintained a steady pace through the fourth weekend of the general

North Dakota mule deer continue rebound, but 1 hunting unit still behind

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A fall survey indicates the mule deer population in the western North Dakota Badlands continued its rebound this year, though doe hunting remained off-limits in one