• Issue Archive for
  • December - March 2011
  • Vol. 2, No. 4
Digital Edition

Montana Headwall

  • Head Trip

    • Snow pack

    The Race to the Sky is one of the toughest and most scenic long-distance dogsled races in the lower 48, traversing 350 miles of the rugged Rocky Mountains surrounding the Seeley-Swan Valley. Every February, competing teams run 100 miles a day or more, pulling sleds laden with 60 pounds of gear and about 170 pounds of musher in conditions ranging from blizzards and sub-zero cold to midday heat and rain.
  • Head Lines & Features

    • Chute to thrill

    Up on the Headwaters ridge, with Lone Peak looming to the west, the competitors start to congregate at the top of their chosen runs. The sky is big and blue with sporadic clouds spitting flurries. At the judges' tent, disc jockeys from Bozeman's KISS FM spin Top 40 hits as the riders start ticking off their lines. The new snow inspires courage and it looks like no one is holding back.
  • Head Gear

    • Carving a name

    Seneca Boards founder Eric Newman has the determination of a big mountain avalanche—once he makes up his mind to do something, nothing short of death or total dismemberment will stop him, and even that might not be enough.
  • Head Shots

    • November's Top Shot

    A view of morning clouds over Red Mountain from the Helena National Forest.
  • Head Lines & Features

    • Cold six

    If he hadn't spent 12 continuous hours skiing and scrambling and elbowing to the top—if the snow around him weren't a cemetery of sorts for climbers who'd died here—he might have stopped for a while to celebrate. His half-minute on top of 10,466-foot Mount Cleveland had made him the first person ever to climb all six of Glacier's 10,000-foot peaks in winter, a feat that took him almost a decade and countless frozen expeditions into the most remote parts of the park. All solo. And all while saving the biggest for last.

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