Ben Pierce | November 25, 2010
It was an unfortunate accident, something that could have happened to anyone on that brilliant morning in Hyalite Canyon. The slide occurred on the first day of the Bozeman Ice Festival during the Hyalite Ice Breaker – a climbing competition that had attracted some of the world’s most experienced climbers. Guy Lacelle, a highly-regarded climber [...]
Category: Bozeman, Climbing, U.S. Forest Service |
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Tags: Adam Knoff, Bozeman Ice Festival, Guy Lacelle, Joe Josephson, Pat Callis
Ben Pierce | November 22, 2010
Here’s a video featuring some of the best sights along the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone National Park including a time-lapse of Old Faithful Geyser erupting and the brink of Lower Falls. The video was shot on Nov. 2 and Nov. 7 during the final week that Yellowstone’s interior roads remain open to the public. [...]
Category: Birds, Bison, Elk, Fishing, Road Trips, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: Hayden Valley, Madison River, Morning Glory Pool, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
Ben Pierce | November 22, 2010
This photograph of a cougar lurking behind an elk hunter made waves on the web this month. Of course, questions about it’s legitimacy arose shortly thereafter. The story went that an elk hunter was in the hills posing for a photograph he set up on a self timer. When the hunter got back to his [...]
Category: Elk, Hunting |
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Tags: mountain lion, Scott Sandsberry
Ben Pierce | November 11, 2010
Ben Romans keeps finding his way back to Montana. This past week the University of Montana graduate was in the Bitterroot Valley hunting mule deer with a college buddy. For the better part of the last two years, Romans crisscrossed the Treasure State after another quarry – trout. The culmination of those efforts is “Montana’s [...]
Category: Fishing, Madison River |
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Tags: Ben Romans, fly fishing, Greg Smith, trout, University of Montana
Ben Pierce | November 4, 2010
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – There’s a snowman waving to passersby at the height of Craig Pass in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. He’s looking a little limp these days, holding out for colder temperatures. Bad news for him: he’s waving under sunny skies with mild weather forecast to continue for the remainder of the [...]
Category: Bison, Bozeman, Fishing, Madison River, Snowmobiling, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: Al Nash, interior roads, Old Faithful, visitation
Ben Pierce | November 1, 2010
The Montana department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks released the results of its polling at game check stations for the second week of the general hunting season on Monday. The findings show a decrease in the harvest rate of elk and a slight uptick in the number of white-tailed deer harvested. Mule deer harvest numbers [...]
Category: Bozeman, Elk, Hunting, Montana FWP |
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Tags: game check stations, mule deer, white tailed deer