The Lifestyle — from the journal.

Whether elk tastes 'gamey' has almost nothing to do with the elk and almost everything to do with the first hour after the shot.

Lauren · 3 min read

Both involve horses, both involve Colorado, both involve cowboy hats — but they're not the same thing. Jamie on which guests go where, and why we're not trying to be both.

Jim Johnson · 6 min read

There's a pool above the cattleguard where, most summers, a kid catches their first fish. It's the same pool, a different kid, every year.

Lauren · 3 min read

All day the trout had been down deep, sulking. Then the light went long and gold, the first mayfly lifted off the riffle, and the whole creek tipped its hand.

Lauren · 3 min read

There's a meal that happens the night a hunter's elk comes off the mountain — a few inches of backstrap, a hot pan, and a quiet that no restaurant has ever managed.

Lauren · 3 min read