By Jamie Balke Explore Big Sky Columnist The other day I was outside checking the mail when I heard boisterous caterwauling from inside my apartment. Among...
By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist During the first week of June, I returned to the small coastal town of Neskowin, Ore. for the second summer in...
By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist Flaming burgers: a vegetarian’s story I enjoy attending barbeques, but it wasn’t until last summer that I transformed from a semi-reluctant...
By Jamie Balke explorebigsky.com Columnist In a previous column I described my heretofore limited success at patio gardening. This spring, I’ve decided to turn it all...
By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist With spring approaching, I find myself again faced with imminent failure. In my fertile imagination, an appreciation of the natural world...
Update: Angry and winded — whereupon we take this show on the trail/sidewalk By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist In a previous column I described my recent...
By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Contributor It was dark and early when Rob Patterson of Yellowstone Tour Guides departed Bozeman for the Summit Hotel in Big Sky....
By Jamie Balke ExploreBigSky.com Columnist Normally I write this column about misadventures, realizations, or my love affair with the West. Today, if you don’t mind, I...
By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist At the end of September, I traveled to New Mexico to cheer on a friend in his doctoral defense. It was...
Wanderer at rest By Jamie Balke Explorebigsky.com Columnist In order to write this column, I must first make a confession. I own an albino guinea pig....