Winter 2018
Behold the glorious winter. Our 28th annual winter magazine offers up stories to motivate discovery of the snowy season – indoors and out, with tales of adventure, art, community and culture. Cover stories on heliskiing and extreme snowshoeing plus backcountry hut living, the SARS racers and others take will readers from armchair to adventure.
Also not to miss: a feature interview with Olympic skier Rebecca Dussault; a visit with four artists who make the art among us, profiles of local groups from Angels Over Sandpoint to the LOR Foundation, a search for the missing millennials, plus many more. Click to read the flip-page edition.
Online Articles
- Get dropped into the Backcountry
Selkirk Powder Company brings heli-skiing to the Selkirk Mountains
- Wolfgang Keller, an early father of heli-skiing vacations in Sandpoint
Wolfgang Keller, An early father of heli-skiing vacations in Sandpoint
- Off the beaten path
Sandpoint family caretaking a legend, Boulder Hut, a back country ski hut in British Canada
- A visit to Boulder Hut
Boulder Hut in B.C. Canada is hosted by the Yancys, a Sandpoint family
- Tackling the Challenge
- Four decades of mountaintop worship Schweitzer Chapel serves all
Nestled beneath the bustling main road at Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Schweitzer Chapel has been hosting non-denominational services and Catholic Mass, as well as housing church group retreats, for 40 years now.
- OUR MISSING MILLENNIALS
Over the last decade, Bonner County’s population grew as expected—on the surface. Sam Wolkenhauer, an economist with the Idaho Department of Labor, has studied Bonner County’s unique situation, looking beneath the county’s predicted growth to understand what is really happening.
- Nordic ski racer Rebecca Dussault
Sandpoint’s newest Olympian, Nordic ski racer Rebecca Dussault, is busy.