Curling Outdoors: A Love Story
Stanley, Idaho, is famous for two things: It’s often the coldest place in the Continental U.S., and it’s home to the S.O.B, the Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel. Bonspiels are curling tournaments …
How to Die in Montana
This story about death is more hopeful than sad. That’s because Erwin Byrnes, who had Parkinson’s, and Ethel Byrnes, his wife of 63 years, figured out how to die with …
Episode 6: Madmen, Poets + Singers
David Poole woke up in the snow in Colorado, his lower half numb, and has been working since then to get back to his life outdoors near home: Townsend, Montana. …
Episode 5: Garage Pop + Germs
“I made you a mixtape!” Even though Hana Zimorino started dating the guy Mikki Lunda had been living with for three years, Hana thought, really? They needed to start a …
Episode 4: Conversion + Combat
Jacob and Ben Cronin are brothers with parents who think God can show the path to the good life, which turns out to be the one straight people are on. …
Episode 3: Blobs + Heartbreak
Parenting, man. It’s complicated. “Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives” gets at how parents think about their kids and how their thinking evolves and changes as a baby becomes a person. …
Episode 2: Goats + Dumplings
“Where we goin’ now, boss?” Follow Colin May and a couple of charismatic researchers to Glacier National Park, where a study about habituated goats all mostly ties back to human …
Episode 1: Grandpas + Grenades
“Your grandmother’s lice got going real good, so I took her down to the river when it got to be 30 below, chopped a hole in the ice and put …
A Madman’s Freedom
David “Madman” Poole earned his nickname in high school in Townsend, Montana. It had even more meaning after he woke up nearly buried in snow following a skiing accident when …
The Typewriter Poet
Tyler Knott Gregson of Helena starts every day the same way. He gets out of bed, sits down at his kitchen table and pounds out a poem on an old …