Connect with us

Sports

‘Town Crier’ newsletter – Briefs from the Region (1) – 1/7/20

Avatar photo

Published

on

Amish backcountry skiers, ‘most devoted’

This winter, Powder Magazine writer Clare Menzel ventured into the Mission Range of northwestern Montana seeking the state’s “most devoted” backcountry skiers, those unlikely skiers found in the St. Ignatius Amish settlement located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Some 850 people live there, abiding by the strict cultural practices of Amish living including no driving, cell phones, voting or listening to secular music. For the residents of St. Ignatius, school ends after eighth grade. Fortunately, the people there are permitted the use of avalanche beacons because they don’t connect to the internet—and they need them when they ski the virtually untapped couloirs of Kakache, a “blocky 8,575-foot mountain [that] sits between Missoula and Whitefish, Montana, within the Confederated Salish and Kootenay Tribes’ Mission Mountains Wilderness,” writes Menzel. Up there, she discovered, the young Amish skiers find a potent connection to God where divine power is visible, tangible. Menzel lauded their authenticity, versus the hollow “sermons of the blissed-out bros who proclaim skiing is their religion.” 

Upcoming Events

march, 2024

Filter Events

26febAll Day21aprBig Sky School District Kindergarten Roundup and 4K Program Interest(All Day) Event Type :EducationEvent City:Big Sky

15mar(mar 15)7:00 pm30(mar 30)8:30 pmVerge Theater Presents My Barking Dog7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (30) Verge TheaterEvent Type :ArtsEvent City:Bozeman

23mar6:00 pm23apr8:00 pmThe Portal- Cacao Ceremony, Transcendental Breathwork & Sound Journey Meditation6:00 pm - (april 23) 8:00 pm Santosha Wellness CenterEvent Type :OtherEvent City:Big Sky

28mar5:00 pm6:00 pmHoly Thursday Mass: St. Joseph Catholic Mission5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Type :OtherEvent City:Big Sky

Advertisements

X
X