Paws Up Adventure Journal Fall 2022 by pawsupcollection

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AD A VE U NT TU M U AW R N E AI S T

As we prepare to welcome the glorious fall season to Paws Up, it’s a pleasure to get reacquainted with the things we love most about this time of year in Montana. The shorter days seem to encourage a collective slowdown to admire the beauty around us: that stunningly blue September sky stretching so wide above the mountains, the bewitching glint of a fishing line thrown across the Blackfoot River at magic hour or the final aromatic dish that completes our famously picture-perfect Thanksgiving spread. All told, fall is delicious. In early fall, we’re all about America’s favorite pastime: camping. At Paws Up, we kick off camping season in summer, but autumn’s cooler nights draw us even closer around the campfire, granting permission for a second helping of s’mores and tall tales. In the heart of this issue of the Adventure Journal is an all-out ode to camping, tracing its origins from 40,000 BC on up through glamping, which was invented right here on the Ranch. Matched by our love for camping is our adoration of leaf-peeping season, when we’re reminded just how colorful autumn in Montana really is. As occasional dips in temperature begin to coax the green from the local trees, leaving bursts of red, orange, yellow and purple, our tamaracks put on one of the boldest shows in the valley. The tallest one in the country, dubbed “Gus” by the locals, is a quick trip from Paws Up. We admire our tamaracks so much, we devoted an entire story to them in these pages. Whether you’re looking for a culinary-rich getaway with a partner or one last hurrah with the family before the weather turns, plenty of autumn adventures await at Paws Up. We look forward to seeing you before too long.

The Lipson Family The Resort at Paws Up

Feel the

Thunder The buffalo jumps of Montana

When you’re gazing upward to the top of the Madison Buffalo Jump, its height isn’t particularly soaring or impressive. In fact, it’s a relatively easy 20-minute hike up the side of the limestone and granite formation, save for a few pauses to silence rattlesnake clatter under nearby rocks. Looking down from the plateau is another matter altogether. Quickly, it begins to sink in: This view is the last thing a bison saw before crashing headlong into boulders below. It didn’t need to be Mount Everest. Buffalo jumps are considered by archeologists to be emblematic of a truly sophisticated native hunting method—its objective to lure these majestic, two-ton animals to the point of no return.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 300 RECOGNIZED BISON/BUFFALO JUMPS IN MONTANA ALONE,

with two of the largest in the United States located there. Ulm Pishkin and First People’s Buffalo Jump are north of Paws Up, near Great Falls. By comparison, the humble jump on the Madison River, located mid-state near Bozeman, was used by a multitude of Native American tribes, including the Shoshone, Salish, Pend d’Oreille, Crow and Blackfeet, for at least 1,000 years before Lewis & Clark passed through Montana. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, Madison Buffalo Jump State Park is the fourth-busiest state park in the region. Mass harvesting of buffalo was an efficient means of survival and supplied the greatest amount of food and resources at one time. If 50 animals charged off a cliff, that yielded roughly 11,000 to 20,000 pounds of meat, which would be dried for the long winter ahead. For the website allaboutbison.com, buffalo expert Kristen Carlson wrote that the practice required “an understanding of topography, environment, bison behavior, and established migration patterns to accomplish large-scale kills.” More than anything, it required the careful orchestration of teamwork, skill and dedication: unity that often lacks in groups without pressing survival needs, according to Carlson. Here’s how it worked. Man-made V-shaped rock cairns served as drive lines to bookend the herd. Large groups of tribesmen on horseback surrounded a herd from behind, pushing them into an intentional flight mode. At the promontory of a 50- to 100-foot cliff, a fleet-of-foot buffalo runner waited as a decoy, camouflaged in hide and horns and mimicking a runaway calf. At the last minute, the runner would jump over the cliff as the herd reached the edge, clinging to an outcropping of rock, as the bison flew overhead to meet their destiny below. Women and children waited at the bottom to process each animal.

Horns were turned into spoons, cups and utensils

Buffalo Bones provided marrow and were crafted into tools

Hides became clothing and shelter Meat was dried or made into pemmican

Products Tendons were used to make bows

In locations where jumps were nonexistent, such as on low plains, hunting methods were adapted to the environment. For example, some tribes would light a half ring of fire behind herds to drive animals in a specific direction toward hunters waiting on horseback with bows and arrows. Modern media may romanticize the West in film and television, but these times were not for the faint of heart. It was a brutal, austere time, marked by harsh winters and hot summers. And while these jumps may now only see buffalo grazing in spirit, archeologists have found up to 13 feet of buffalo bones in some places and have dated bones from AD 900 through AD 1500.

21ST CENTURY MOUNTAIN MAN

IS THIS 2022, OR 1822? If you spend much time with throwback mountain man Gary Steele, host of the crowd favorite Gettin’ Primitive Wilderness Workshop, it can be hard to tell. We recently chatted with Steele to see what all he’s been up to and learn a bit about his book. YOU’RE A SELF-DESCRIBED MOUNTAIN MAN. DID YOU HAVE ANY EARLY HEROES?

When I was 16, I saw Jeremiah Johnson and said, “Yeah, that’s for me.” I wanted to go that way. Getting by in the wilderness, backpacking in the mountains. Over the years I acquired various skills and guided wilderness tours and even sea kayaking on Yellowstone Lake. YOUR BOOK, MOVING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK, REVEALS THAT YOU’VE SURVIVED A LOT…INCLUDING AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MOUNTAIN LION. I was hunting deer and rattling deer antlers, hoping to get a big buck to come to me. Instead, a mountain lion appeared, stalking me. He was looking for a meal, too. He came within 13 steps, then saw me. We made eye contact. The lion arched its back and raised its hackles high. After a moment or two I spoke to it: “Howdy, how ya doin’?” The encounter ended with the big cat turning and trotting off the way it had come. IN THE FALL, YOU DO PRIVATE SESSIONS OF GETTIN’ PRIMITIVE. WHAT’S THAT ENTAIL? Private as in, just with one family. I’ll teach about primitive tools and weapons. Throwing a spear with an atlatl—that’s an ancient throwing device—that’s always popular. I’ll take them for a walk in the woods, point out certain things, like tracks or even how to use the yarrow root to numb a sore tooth. Gary Steele is available in the fall for private Gettin’ Primitive sessions. You’ll find his book, Moving Forward by Looking Back, at the Wilderness Outpost.

Shelton Fitzgerald: The artful archer Native Texan Shelton Fitzgerald remembers his first trip through Montana as a boy. He bought a dreamcatcher at Custer’s Last Stand from a Native artisan, which lit a fuse of fascination around native artistry—and Montana. A popular, longtime Paws Up activities guide, Fitzgerald had been fascinated by primitive hunting bows and weaponry from an early age, including spears and atlatls. He began toying with making his own bows at the age of 32, but admits most broke. So he looked for a mentor. Bitterroot, Montana bowyer Jim Neaves of Centaur Archery taught Fitzgerald how to make traditional longbows. Popular for target shooting and bow hunting, traditional bows are where the rubber meets the road in modern bow-making. Fashioned of multiple wood layers, they’re backed by animal sinew from tendons and spinal back straps of elk, deer, bison and moose. The sinew, layered with specific wood species, is what lends flexibility to a bow. Modern compound bows, found in sporting goods stores, typically use synthetic materials that place leverage above craft. Tensile cables and pulleys can be easily adjusted for “draw weight” from person to person. Draw weight correlates with feet-per-second of arrow travel. A 40-pound bow will travel at approximately 240 feet per second. But here’s the catch: “The draw weight of a traditional bow can never be adjusted,” Fitzgerald says. “When I make a bow for someone, we both have to know what’s comfortable to draw back for hunting and targets.” Understandably, the process is anything but quick. Some bows take months, he says, depending upon customization of the bow: wood type (Osage orange, hickory and ash), custom adornments and so forth. Fitzgerald often marks his bows with Native symbols or futhark—runes used in Norse culture—and calls his work functional art. Now 40, Fitzgerald crafts the archer’s gamut: everything from tip-to-tail arrows (stone and steel for points and fletching from turkey wing feathers) to handcrafted quivers that would make even Katniss Everdeen a veritable fashion plate in the next Hunger Games.

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TAMARACKS THE GIANTS OF LOCAL FORESTS

Western larches, aka tamaracks, are conifers. But they are not evergreens. Come again? Seeming to defy definition, larches boast both the beauty of light-green needles plus the glory of fall colors as intense as any seen in New England. The fact that larches shed those golden needles makes it the only deciduous-coniferous tree in North America. Bare branches in winter also make the larch less susceptible to heavy snow damage come winter. And that’s just one of several survival mechanisms that make the larch so fascinating. Early on, sun-loving western larch saplings outcompete their shorter cousins, such as Douglas firs, for sunlight. Early growth spurts soon have them acting like pro basketball centers, hovering over the competition, their pointed crowns eventually reaching far above the canopy. In fact, the tallest western larch in America, affectionately known by locals as Gus, stands taller than the Statue of Liberty and lords over the surrounding forest near Seeley Lake, just north of Paws Up. Towering 163 feet above the forest floor, Gus symbolizes longevity. According to the U.S. Forest Service, Gus has survived innumerable windstorms and bravely fought off more than three dozen forest fires over the past thousand years or so. Much of the larch’s ability to live for many centuries comes from the trees’ ability to fight off fires. The cinnamon-colored bark of ancient trees often bears blackened battle scars as proof. First, the low-resin larches are fire-resistant, a trait also due to unusually thick bark—four inches deep and up—shielding the trunk and appearing pieced together like a well-orchestrated jigsaw puzzle. But it’s not just fire that attacks larches. Older trees may be threatened by quinine conk, a fungus creating rotten spots—a fact that helps woodpeckers, flying squirrels and owls carve out homes. Nonplused, these trees survive fungus and invasive critters alike.

Oddly enough, the fungus that threatened them may have saved many old growth larches from loggers at the turn of the twentieth century. Though coveted for being telephone-pole straight, lumberjacks found that the rot that came with old age ruined many trees’ timber values. Perhaps ecologist Suzanne Simard had larches partly in mind when she concluded that trees “talk” or communicate with each other, sharing ways to find and spread nutrients. When western larches shed needles each fall, they are in essence feeding the entire larch community with nitrogen-rich needles. So many of those yellow-gold needles descend on the lane leading into the green o resort that locals have dubbed it “the yellow brick road.”

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needles growing in clusters—each needle is only about 1.5 inches long. Similar in length, lined with pointed bracts, larch cones have a rather bearded appearance.

What’s for supper?

Beef, booze and good , live beat

You could learn a lot growing up in Montana: how to help deliver a calf, how to shred the half-pipe. But how to whip up a good, stiff cocktail? Not so much—unless you’re Kera Holloway, who was 8 years old when her family purchased the renowned and beloved Seven Up Ranch Supper Club just outside Lincoln. Back then, families drove from hundreds of miles around to come celebrate holidays, mark important milestones or attend a surprisingly sophisticated annual art auction that was held on the premises. “It was a very magical, wonderful place,” Holloway recalls. Supper clubs used to dot the country, especially in the Upper Midwest. They became popular in the 1930s and ’40s, after Prohibition had ended and people were eager to enjoy a big night out with live music and cocktails. These roadside establishments were often on the outskirts of towns, welcoming diners from far and wide. Large steaks, fancy cocktails and live entertainment were de rigueur. The place to go in Montana was undoubtedly the Seven Up. “When I think of a supper club in Montana, I think of a nice, rustic place,” says Holloway. And in the West, they were big. Her family’s restaurant sat on 40 acres and was 7,700 square feet on the inside, with four giant fireplaces. “The bar top was about 30 feet long, and the tables and that bar were all cut from the same tree.”

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“It alw ays felt like a ” . t n e v e l a i spec Upon entering, you’d be greeted by her jovial grandpa, Wayne Cashman. “Look what trouble brought in!” he’d say as the hostess would usher you to your red and black Naugahyde seats. Once the appetizers were cleared away, you’d visit the distinctive “wishing well” (actually a large salad bar). There’d be prime rib and a baked potato for your entrée and, after dinner, you’d get a scoop of ice cream with hot fudge. Grownups were treated to an adult pour like crème de menthe or a Sazerac, as the live band would start to play. “It always felt like a special event.” Sadly, in 2001, the Seven Up burned down and the family made the painful decision to cut their losses. The venerable name was sold, but nothing else remains. Holloway’s grandparents retired. Not too far from The Resort at Paws Up, however, you can still get a sense of the oldfashioned Montana supper club. Holloway, who now serves as a representative for Montgomery Distillery, knows the standbys well. “When I’m feeling nostalgic, I go to Lolo Creek Steak House outside Missoula or Lindey’s Prime Steak House in Seeley Lake.” New upscale options in cities like Chicago and New York are popping up, too, with high-end menus, live music or at times burlesque shows and of course drinks like the Brandy Alexander. Some are “secret” or even underground, recalling the days before Prohibition ended. Their urban vibe might be more upscale hipster, less family-oriented than the Seven Up was, but the experience itself is every bit as intoxicating.

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S H A D OW L A N D S

Whether their natural resources or financial backing ran dry, disasters occurred or development sparked interest elsewhere, once-thriving towns across the West were abruptly abandoned—sometimes overnight. These so-called ghost towns are plentiful across Montana, with a few located practically in our own backyard. Read on to learn why these towns disappeared from the map, what’s left now and why these made our favorites list.

Bannack State Park Bannack

Coloma

Mystery Camp of Garnet Range Missoula

Elkhorn State Park Boulder

Garnet Ghost Town Drummond

Granite Ghost Town Philipsburg

This National Historic Landmark is the site of Montana’s first gold discovery on July 28, 1862. It is the best-preserved ghost town in the state, with more than 50 log and frame buildings lining Main Street. Want to really know what it feels like to live here? There are 28 campsites, including a rental tipi.

Newspapers and catalog pages from the late 1800s are stuffed into the walls (it was used as insulation then) and it was last mined in 1916, but Coloma remains a great mystery. It is thought that around $200,000 of gold was mined here but not much is known about it. Some think it may have been a huge failure while others think there is still treasure to be discovered. View railroad tracks, mine shafts and rusting ventilation systems, along with pumping machines.

Accessed through backcountry roads, this nineteenth century silver mine in the privately owned town of Elkhorn is paradise for photographers. Fraternity Hall and Gillian Hall, prime examples of frontier architecture recorded in the Historic American Buildings Survey, await your arrival. It’s near Paws Up and you can get there by bike or car, but that’s not why it’s one of our favorites. Named after the brown garnet rock used as an abrasive and a semiprecious stone found in the area, this historic mining ghost town dates back to 1895. Now managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Garnet Preservation Association, there are more than 30 preserved buildings. Almost half of the town burned down in 1912 and was never rebuilt, but the remaining, fully restored buildings include the J.R. Wells Hotel, Dahl’s Saloon, Kelly’s Bar and the F.A. Davey’s Store. You can even wander into some! Once home to 3,000 miners, Granite bears the distinction of being the richest silver mine on earth in the late 1800s. Thought to be depleted, a final blast delivered a $40,000,000 find. It closed in 1893 during the Silver Panic and never reopened. Today, visitors will discover a shell of the Union Hall, with a caved-in roof and three levels about to converge into one.

CAMPING comes of age

Camping through the millennium has grown from a survival necessity to a passionate recreational pursuit for millions of Americans. Modern camping encompasses many forms: backpacking, bike camping, car camping, van camping, RV camping, horseback camping…well, you get the idea. The outdoor lifestyle best known for burnt hot dogs and endless off-key singalongs started back in the day…before we even had a country. Join us for a quick journey through time with the great American pastime. (Sorry, baseball, but you’ve been surpassed by the camping craze.)

CAMPING: A CHERRY-PICKED HISTORY 40,000 BC

1830

1861–65

1870s

1872

First tents carbon date to this timeframe. But before you could pitch the tent, you had to get the tent, aka hide, off of a giant mastodon. Goodbye cave camping, hello super heavyweight tents.

Jim Bridger has fleas. Roughing it meant “itching it” as mountain men/campers sleep under vermin-infested buffalo hides in their endless pursuit of beaver.

Civil War–era camping truly lacked creature comforts. The ground was cold. The bedrolls were cold. The hardtack was cold. The jerky was cold. But at least the lousy coffee was hot!

Montana’s elk camps gain renown as waxed canvas allows waterproof, oversized, multi-room tent camping to flourish.

President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, preserving two million acres of wildlife-filled land in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

BECAUSE CAMPERS RUN ON CAFFEINE The old tales about how to make the best cowboy coffee over an open flame aren’t pretty. One includes boiling pounds of grounds in a pot and, to see if it’s ready, dropping in a horseshoe. If the shoe floats, it ain’t done! Some cowboys filled the toe of an old sock with coffee beans and tossed it in boiling water. Sure, they got coffee—and a special distaste for lint. Today’s campers today can do a bit better…and it’s pretty darn easy.

Basic Cowboy Coffee Recipe Using your (typically 12-oz.) camp cup, add 8–10 oz. of water (about ¾ of your camp cup) per cup of coffee to your tin or enamel coffee pot. Go ahead and make at least three cups at a time. Set pot on campfire grate. Bring water to a rolling boil. Then remove pot from heat. Caution: That handle gets hot! Let it sit for a minute or two. Now, add 2 tbsp. of ground coffee per cup of water—a finer grind means more eye-opening results. Stir with a long spoon. Let ’er sit a minute. Then, stir again. Sprinkle in some cold water (about ¼ cup for three or four cups of coffee to settle the grounds). Do this last step or you’ll be spitting coffee grounds ’til lunch. Pour into your camp cup. The aroma will draw your campmates like bees to honey.

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Pryce Jones patents the Euklisia Rug, a snuggly cocoon that inspires the modern sleeping bag.

The publication of Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts includes a recipe for the ooey, gooey perpetuator of delighted squeals: the Some More, soon to be shortened to s’more. Genius.

Dupont develops lightweight nylon. Tents proceed to get lighter as the decades pass. Backpackers and pack horses alike breathe sighs of relief.

Volkswagen’s camper-friendly Eurovan debuts at campgrounds and on beaches. Van culture never looks back and evolves into one of today’s biggest crazes.

Camping gets a rather luxurious upgrade as The Resort at Paws Up® sets up elaborate safari-style tent camps and coins the phrase “glamping.”

ROAMING MONTANA’S DINOSAUR TRAIL Imagine, if you will, Montana 65 million years ago. Where herds of cattle now dot lush green pastures, dinosaurs like plated Stegosaurus and Triceratops plundered a path through volcanic rock. Where eagles soar and osprey now nest along riverbanks, skies were dark with flesh-eating Pterosaurs in search of prey. This was the age of dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Era along Montana’s Dinosaur Trail, when Earth was a supercontinent called Pangea with no broken borders or seas to separate them, when dinosaur species roamed closely as neighbors.

ONCE PANGEA BEGAN DIVIDING DURING THE JURASSIC PERIOD

(200 million years ago), species became scattered across newly freed continents and evolved within shifting ecosystems. A warm, shallow ocean known as the Western Interior Seaway (see map) cut a swath through the state of Montana, running from the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park down through the Jewel Basin. That seaway began to recede 65 million years ago, as the Rocky Mountains rose and pushed the shoreline farther east, providing a warm and humid climate. Sediment deposited here would become known as the Hell Creek Formation, where many dinosaur fossils are frequently found. In fact, the archeological remains of dinosaurs discovered in Montana are significant: more skeletal remains are discovered here than anywhere else in the world.

Several T. rex finds have made worldwide headlines, including two complete specimens affectionately named “Big Mike” (1988) and “Sue” (1990). The largest collection of Triceratops specimens in the world, also found in Montana, can be seen at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. Perhaps the most significant discovery about life during the Cretaceous period was “Egg Mountain.” Fourteen intact nests found in the Two Medicine range have helped scientists pull together vital facts about dinosaur behavior. The 75 million–year-old fossilized Maiasaura eggs found there not only confirm the presence of bi-pedal, duck-billed hadrosaurs, but also settled a long running debate: Dinosaurs, thought to be cold-blooded, were actually warm-blooded, nested in groups, and fed and cared for their young. Most states in the union have a state bird or animal. Incidentally, Montana’s state bird is the Western meadowlark. Its animal, a Grizzly bear. Oh, and we also have a state fossil. With the discovery of Egg Mountain, the official state fossil of Montana is the Maiasaura peeblesorum, or “duck-billed dinosaur.” Bet you don’t see those every day. Montana’s Dinosaur Trail is vast. Fourteen museums across the state house prehistoric treasures unearthed in Montana. Find them here: mtdinotrail.org.

M ESOZO IC E RA The Triassic Period

The Jurassic Period

The Cretaceous Period

(252 to 201 million years ago)

(201 to 145 million years ago)

(145 to 65 million years ago)

The Triassic period initiated the rise of dinosaurs one million years after the Great Dying, when an estimated 90 percent of all species perished.

The Jurassic period saw the emergence of sauropods: enormous long-necked and small-headed dinosaurs like Diplodocus, Allosaurus and Brontosaurus, along with the armored Stegosaurus.

The Cretaceous period marks the emergence of the earth’s most menacing carnivores and Montana’s greatest archeological treasures of flesh-tearing species: the Velociraptor, Triceratops and the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.

DIG THIS: MONTANA’S KEY DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES 1854

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North America’s first dinosaur remains are found along the upper Missouri River.

The world’s first identified T. rex is found near Judith Landing.

The first intact baby theropod bones in North America are found in Choteau.

“Elvis,” the best articulated 33-foot-long Brachylophosaurus fossil, is found near Malta.

“Leonardo,” a partially mummified Brachylophosaurus and the most intact dinosaur ever, is found in Phillips County.

FALL EVENTS AT PAWS UP

Fish and Feast FLY-FISHING DELIGHTS FOLLOWED BY CULINARY ONES SEPTEMBER 2–5 For the fifth year in a row, elite chefs feel the pull of Fish and Feast. It’s a Labor Day culinary event to enjoy fly-fishing adventures on our storied stretch of the Blackfoot River. They’ll spend their mornings with you, battling cutthroats and rainbows. Then, they show off masterful cooking skills each night.

Cowgirl Fall Roundup GIVING ORDINARY GIRLFRIEND GETAWAYS THE BOOT SEPTEMBER 9–12 This fall, spend three memorable days getting to know Cowgirl Hall of Famers, gleaning wisdom on everything from roping and riding to photography. Action-packed days are chased by gourmet meals. Luxurious accommodations provide the ultimate in comfort after a thrilling day on the trails.

The Wonder Women of Fly-Fishing GO AHEAD AND CAST LIKE A GIRL. SEPTEMBER 9–12 Beginners and experienced anglers alike can brush up on the basics before enjoying guided tours of the legendary Blackfoot River. Then, feel the rush of excitement as you notice a gentle tug on your line. After a day on the water, you’ll have plenty of tales to tell and memories to cherish.

Nashtana FUN TO SAY, EVEN BETTER TO EXPERIENCE SEPTEMBER 15–19 Top Nashville talent—Jessi Alexander and Jon Randall—will provide intimate performances and Paws Up guests will enjoy front-row seats. During the day, you might join the tunesmiths on a variety of rollicking wilderness adventures. Later, you’ll enjoy dinners from Nashville BBQ legend Carey Bringle.

Montana Master Chefs® TOP CHEFS, FINE WINES AND MUSIC TO YOUR EARS SEPTEMBER 22–25 Every September, Paws Up serves up the best of the best at the height of the harvest season during our annual signature culinary event. This three-day fall foodie weekend brings perfect wine pairings, live musical performances and, of course, phenomenal outdoor adventures in a setting beyond compare.

Wilderness Workshop: Montana Majesty Painting WHEN IT COMES TO ART CLASSES, MONTANA IS OUR CLASSROOM. OCTOBER 5 With artist Ashley Mitchell, you might find yourself painting Montana’s state bird or flower or making cowboy and cowgirl portraits, with Paws Up providing the perfect inspiration.

Friends of James Beard Weekend IF HEAVEN HAD A MENU… OCTOBER 7–9 With help from the James Beard Foundation, we’re bringing in the crème de la crème of chefdom. And while they have won a dizzying array of James Beard Awards, the real winner will be you. It will be a weekend stuffed with cuisine normally reserved for big cities, right here in the wilds of Montana.

A Thanksgiving Weekend to Remember A FEAST FOR ALL FIVE SENSES NOVEMBER 24, 2022 Kick off the holiday season with a family-style weekend in Montana. Enjoy Thanksgiving crafts, wagon rides and fireside s’mores. Fit in some grown-up fun with wine tastings, football viewing and outdoor adventures—along with the main course: Thanksgiving dinner from Chef Sunny Jin and special guest Chef Jason French.

For a full schedule of upcoming events and workshops at Paws Up, visit pawsup.com/events.

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With over 37,000 acres of pristine wilderness, our winter wonderland awaits you and your family. This holiday, experience the very best of Paws Up. From our gingerbread house building contest and gourmet dining to dogsledding and soaking in your outdoor hot tub at your private luxury home, it’s a holiday getaway full of tasty delights.