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Reporter’s Notebook

Reporter's Notebook

The Circle Game

I have begun to consider the many ways that my life as a 22-year-old in a ski town will soon change

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The Cardinal Rule

My first journalism job was equal parts fascinating and frightening, in part because the crime beat provided a front-row seat to a veritable theater of the macabre, but also because I was paralytically shy, a condition whose code I’d been trying to override since childhood.

By Tristan Scott
Reporter's Notebook

The Hair of A God

A barbershop, it turns out, is full of stories and storytellers — and there’s always room for another.

By Tristan Scott
Reporter's Notebook

A Halftimely Request

Already I can hear them crying out. Tortured souls, stomachs full of chicken wings and chili, who for 15 minutes found themselves watching something on the TV that wasn’t to their liking

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Consider the Mobster

Nearly 25 years ago, HBO’s “The Sopranos" touched off a golden age of prestige television now dominated by “Yellowstone.” There's a reason why only of those shows ignited a tourism boom.

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Nordic Warrior

For several weeks leading up to the Glacier Glide, an event poster promoting the storied contest begged the question: Are you a Nordic Warrior?

By Tristan Scott
Reporter's Notebook

Be Like Ernest

Take a leaf out of the diary of Ernest Shackleton when faced with winter frigidity

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Worth a Thousand Words

The ability and desire to see the stories in life’s mundaneness is the reason I got into this work. I think it’s the reason that a lot of us did.

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Uphill Sanctuary

Already prone to ascetic solitude, my hermitic propensities grew compulsive. I never encountered a crowd I hadn’t already calibrated how to avoid, and I never entered a room without first plotting my exit

By Tristan Scott
Reporter's Notebook

Nordic Dreams

Season-pass sales at Glacier Nordic Club help lay preparations for the youth ski-education programs for children between the ages of 4 and 18 and ensure that a stable of groomers is prepared to perform this yeoman’s work all winter long

By TRISTAN SCOTT
Reporter's Notebook

Welcome (Home) to Montana

I am, admittedly, a transplant with a lot to learn. But, I am also a person who gets to call the Flathead Valley my home.

By Denali Sagner
Reporter's Notebook

Cold-Weather Reading

When Jack Frost comes nipping at my throat, I turn up the vaulted collar on my pea coat, heat up the kettle and crack the cover of a survival tale to put my discomfort in perspective

By Tristan Scott