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As more and more snow enthusiasts flock to Colorado, people are seeing the advantages to skiing, riding, hiking, and snowmobiling out of bounds of major ski resorts. The crowds of newbies disperse, no one yells at you to slow…
You wake up after a rager, your head is pounding, you dare not think of the damage you did to your liver let alone your poor, tired brain last night. Maybe you’ve taken a few too many downhill tumbles (or…
We’ve all heard of the bearded lady and women with beards have been around for much of recorded human history, but have you ever wondered how these lasses got that way? What causes facial hair in women? The answer has to…
Last Friday on the town in Missoula we ran into this fashion faux pas standing against a backdrop of singing Hutterites (i.e. some weird religious sect that occupies this street corner ever Friday night). Unless you’re going for the rural hooker from…
Have you ever stood in knee deep snow braving a negative eleven degree Fahrenheit white out wondering why your infuriatingly obsessive compulsive dog refuses to squeeze out a turd before his paw pads freeze and you’re stuck carrying him home? Then, just…
Some time ago I watched a Colbert Report which informed me that research shows people who get angry live longer than those who don’t.* Being an angry person myself, I was fueled by Stephen’s appeal to my confirmation bias and decided…
Have you ever wondered why dogs love to roll around in the dirt, why you can’t ever seem to get enough of that sun baked soil smell when you shove your face into Fido’s fur, or why people place their…
Being born in Poland and growing up in Cleveland never fully lent itself to developing solid outdoor survival skills. Most of my knowledge has thus come over the past several years following college. Thankfully, while driving from Missoula to Bozeman…
We recreate (yes, as in the verb at the root of the word recreation) quite a bit around these parts of the great American West and one activity I’m particularly fond of is getting my groove on to Jackie Wilson’s Higher…
What do your hips have to do with an exponentially increasing-by-the-day likelihood of falls, dependency, institutionalization and mortality? Well friends, the so-called openness of your hips happens to be one of the most significant predictors of these aforementioned outcomes and…
