Dusk in the Tetons.
It’s been nice to be back in Bozeman for the fall. Good to have friends and great rivers all around. But I’ve had a nagging feeling it’s time to move on. Time to seek out another adventure.
Though it seems that adventure did not quite come in the form I expected it to.
I’ve been offered the job of reporter / photographer at a small newspaper in the town of Pinedale, Wyoming. Just over an hour south of Jackson Hole, Pinedale is nestled against the Wind River Mountain Range and rests near the largest natural gas field in the continental United States.
7,200 feet in elevation.
No stoplights.
No mail service.
A “barmeuda” triangle on Main Street.
And, apparently, a moose statue in front of the Chinese restaurant that is regularly visited by a selection of curious real moose throughout the winter.
I’m looking forward to the conservation news I’ll be able to dig up. As a personal project, I’m planning to document life in this small town for a year. As one of my new team said in the interview process, “This is not normal everyday America.”
I will continue to work freelance in my free time and am looking forward to new rivers to fish, new mountains to explore, and old haunts to return to.
So here’s to a new adventure!
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Cool! That should be an interesting adventure, to say the least! I look forward to seeing your posts as the experiment moves along!
Sinjin, many thanks. I’m looking forward to it – should make for an interesting personal photo project. “Experiment” may be right on the money.
Thanks, also, for putting me in touch with Russ. He was a great help with good information about the area. I look forward to meeting you both at some point!
Jess, I am a little late on this one, but congrats and good luck. I’ve only been to Pindedale a few times, but I hold them dear. It is of course the gateway to the Wind River Mountains. I can’t imagine a more interesting Western locale to photograph.
Quinn,
Many, many thanks! Housing is very rough here and I’m settling in slowly. Homesick for Montana a bit. But it’s an adventure and Montana will be there. Certainly looking forward to photographing some new locales and fishing some new water!
Hope you have a good winter, and if you are ever in Pinedale let me know!
Jess
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