Mystery Ranch Front Loader Pack Outfitted for Smokejumping

Published 2012-04-18
Editors note: Just last week, in the local market, I ran into our buddy Sam Cox. He’d just finished PT, and was within weeks of returning to McCall for another season of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes to swing a tool at the dirt ringing fires of all sizes. Fire season has its rhythms, […]

Monumental Elegance

Published 2012-04-12
The desert has always inspired me with its clean crisp air and the stark contrast between the iron red dirt and cerulean sky. A time in my life existed where I would go to places like these for weeks at a time, climbing and soaking in the surroundings, while living virtually on pennies. Though it […]

Ski RV Video – Road Trip to Revelstoke

Published 2012-02-06
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The Wolf Days of Winter

Published 2012-02-06
BY: MATT CLYDE Randy Newberg, of On Your Own Adventures, called and asked if I would be a guest hunter on his show for a Montana wolf hunt. I was excited and thankful that he would call me to join him, especially considering I had zero wolf hunting experience. Randy and I talked, and we both understood […]

6500 In A Year

Published 2012-01-26
BY: MARCUS HOCKETT After winning the Mystery Ranch 6500 in the BAYED contest on On Your Own Adventures Forum – Hunt Talk, I’ve been trying to give this pack the workout it deserves. Immediately, this pack became my go-to pack while shed hunting and bear hunting in the spring and carrying the spotting scope and […]

Freeskiing World Tour Photos

Published 2012-01-11
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Freeskiing World Tour in Revelostoke! Here are a few shots from our very own Meg Haywood Sullivan. Thanks again Meg. For full coverage, follow this link: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/story/_/id/7429572/kye-petersen-angel-collinson-win-revelstoke-freeskiing-world-tour&Asf The next stop on the tour travels to our neck of the woods. Good luck to everyone at round 4 of the […]

The Hills

Published 2011-11-21
"The Hills" is our annual hunting trip, and since Sam grew up hunting, he should know that tradition is everything.

Get Powder Blasted!

Published 2011-10-18
Who: You What: The 13th Annual Powder Blast Where: The Emerson Center for Arts and Culture When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, October 28 Why: Fabulous Mexican fare, Lone Peak brewskies and live music by The Sierra Padres – all to raise some dough for the Friends of Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. Why the heck not? Tickets: Get ’em […]

‘Solitaire’ in Bozeman

Published 2011-10-04
Who: You and your friends from Mystery Ranch. What: After 2 years of filming, Sweetgrass Productions brings their ski epic, ‘Solitaire,’ to Bozeman. When: 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 11 Where: Emerson, 111 South Grand Ave. Why: See for yourself… How: Tickets. $10 in advance, $12 day of. Available at Northern Lights Trading Company or buy online here.

Immersion

Published 2011-09-29
Immersion means more days in the field, which yields more opportunity to mingle with elk, to learn from the elk, and perhaps to release an arrow. And so I immerse myself in elk. They have me captivated. Every day that I scout, photograph, and hunt elk, I learn something about them and their behavior. One thing […]