Two winters ago, a man skiing the Maverick backcountry line in Grand Teton National Park had a heart attack. His wife called 911. When Jess King, supervisor for Teton County Search and Rescue, received the call, she got to work immediately. Time was ticking. Working with the Jenny Lake Climbing Rangers and Teton County Search
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In 1973, Chuck Fidroeff’s military plane was spiraling toward the ground in a nosedive. Flying over Vietnam from Thailand, the EC-47’s engine failed and the plane crashed, killing two passengers. Fidroeff was one of the seven lucky survivors. Twelve years in the Air Force had earned him the handle “Double-O-Chuck.” After being unconscious for seven
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Joe “Mad Dog” Stevens gets directly to the point. “I genuinely feel like I have the best job in the world,” he says. As head coach for the Evolution Freeride program at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Stevens spends winters working with young local skiers and snowboarders. “We have a team of fantastic athletes, and we’re
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Wren Fialka learned the power of interconnectedness as a young girl when her mother started a gardening program in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest areas. “The homeless people I met there touched my heart,” she says. “They had a certain type of courage, kindness, and authenticity. I wanted to ensure they were treated with respect.”
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This issue of JHStyle focuses on local residents who make it their mission to give back to the community, whether that means bringing meals to seniors, helping people who are lost or injured in the backcountry, or encouraging kids to be their best—on and off the slopes. Reading these pages, it’s easy to see why
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With rugged mountaintops, free-flowing rivers, and bountiful wildlife, Jackson is a wild place. Much of the area’s wildness is a result of forward-thinking conservationists who worked to protect and preserve that area far before most modern people settled here. Just about every wild thing we enjoy in the area is influenced by the legacy of
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Widely known for his extreme skiing and birthday launches into S & S Couloir, “Wild Bill” Bowen is truly a multi-dimensional athlete. An expert spelunker and dedicated thru-hiker, his curiosity is insatiable. “I get in these ‘child Bill’ moods,” he says. “I’m on a constant search for the unknown.” Bowen splits his time between the
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Ryan Burke was biking up Teton Pass in 2014 when he had a revelation. He had already ran about 40 miles across the Teton Crest Trail, swam almost six miles around Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park, and completed most of the 109-mile bike ride from Jackson known as “around the block.” He was
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When a neighbor knocked on Tricia O’Connor’s door last winter, she wasn’t expecting to hear there was a mountain lion right behind her house feasting on an elk kill. O’Connor has worked as Bridger-Teton National Forest Supervisor for three years, and every say, she still marvels at the wildness of Jackson. “Wilderness is in your
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Seeing the impossibly royal blue waters of Blue Miner Lake in the backcountry of the Gros Ventre Wilderness in the Bridger-Teton National Forest is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many. Brian and Amy Taylor, owners of Grow Ventre Wilderness Outfitters, would argue it’s one that is even better from a vantage point atop a horse. A
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If you stroll around Jackson and chat up just about anyone who’s been in the valley for at least a decade or two, chances are they will tell you it all started with a desire to live here for “one winter” or “one summer” and they somehow never left. This place has a unique pull
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It seems like just yesterday when I stuffed my car with skis, a North Face backpack, and a Kenwood stereo system (all weighed down with a few milk crates of vinyl) and headed to the big city of Seattle to start a career in advertising. I never made it past Salt Lake City on that
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Spending her childhood summers in Maine, Bronwyn Minton spent a lot of time exploring tide pools and became enthralled with the natural world. As a small child, she was fascinated by the negative space between a tree and its leaves, and she would often draw trees and use nature in her childhood sketches. “Early on,
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Erin Ashlee Smith’s vivid, surreal representations of the Tetons decorate murals, hats, t-shirts, and electrical boxes all around Jackson Hole, and they also adorn the walls of local coffee shops and restaurants. Armed with a background in graffiti, Smith moved to Jackson Hole from Arkansas in 2004 and began using her talents to create intriguing
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When Mikey Franco traveled to Japan in 2010, he had hoped to spend his days snowboarding through Niseko’s legendary powder. But a back injury sidelined him and he could barely walk when he arrived. Snowboarding powder was unthinkable. He was traveling for snowboard company Burton, and his colleagues decided to take him to a
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Japanese for artisan—more than a craft or technical skill-set; something completed with attitude and passion for the well-being of all. Last year, my wife and I embarked on a journey involving no travel: we lived in a trailer for 14 months while we gutted and remodeled an original 1940s log cabin. A longtime local
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If you overheat bronze, it can fall apart under the hammer. It needs to stay between 850 and 1250 degrees Fahrenheit, and hitting that sweet spot takes Terry Chambers’ full concentration. He also works with stainless steel and, if that gets too hot, the chrome cooks out of it, The chrome gives it the
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What does it take to turn raw materials into something exceptional? This issue of JHStyle is dedicated to exploring the world of artisans and craftspeople who spend their days transforming, crafting, and creating. We profile metal artist Ben Roth, whose work defies gravity. But working with challenging materials is nothing new for Roth, who
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Most spiders around the world build webs, but that’s not always the case in Jackson Jole. Fiver years ago, Maggie Raboin was conducting her undergraduate research in the area when she discovered something very unexpected: a spider that uses leaves, flower petals, insect wings and other materials to build a mound over its egg
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Science lovers from around the world will gather in Jackson on August 21 to witness what Teton Skies astronomer Ryan Hennessy calls “the biggest astronomical event of our generation For just over two minutes on August 21, the moon will fully cross in front of the sun, producing the first total solar eclipse visible in
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Matt Stirn discovered his love of archaeology when, as a student at Jackson Hole Middle School, he visited the Game Creek Archaeological Site. There was something fascinating about unearthing clues about people who lived thousands of years earlier. Rebecca Sgouros grew up in New Jersey and spent her summers with family in Greece where
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