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

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.

Musings on Our State’s Banner

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

As I recover from this fourth and hopefully final ankle surgery, it’s hard not to reflect on the past six years

If a man is known by the company he keeps, then I must be doing alright

As I turn in my last Beacon stories (for now), new “wide open spaces” lay ahead

As camp season arrives in earnest in northwest Montana, I’ve been flooded with memories of my own experiences at a wide range of camps and experiential outdoor education programs I attended in my youth

In his eyes I cannot fail so I am determined not to fail those eyes; which, paradoxically, means I fail daily. His standards are impossible to meet.

Pausing to answer the question, I considered the two boreal toads and the black bear I'd just encountered on this secret stretch of trail — friends of the forest with unassailable local credentials

An extra layer of insight makes the highs, and lows, of covering track and field all the more dramatic

I’ve learned to vanquish the nagging demons of inferiority — or at least lull them into complacency with liberal doses of endorphins

Although our degrees of musical appreciation vary, we all incorporate these meticulously arranged frequencies into the core of our identities.

For being the smallest ski area in Montana, Bear Paw Ski Bowl has the biggest heart

Youth is wasted on the young, to be sure; but wisdom seems too often to be simply wasted