Recently, there has been talk of the high school creating a new competitive sport for female athletes. The process and reasons for creating this new sport are complicated.

Currently there are two laws that govern equal gender participation in Montana high school sports. The first is a Montana court decision called the Ridgeway Settlement, which calls for an equal number of sports for males and females. The second is a federal law called Title Nine. That requires “equal participant...

If we honestly take a moment to step back and reflect on a time we were aggravated or annoyed, we can probably all admit to having said, at least once, “That was so retarded.” Yet, like many times in our lives, we may fail to think about the repercussions of our words. Take for example the story of a special needs woman who was skiing at Bridger one weekend this year on a bluebird, cloudless day. Seemingly perfect, until her day was ruined by two teenage boys on her bus that started to...

A few weeks ago a family friend invited me on an all-expenses-paid cat-skiing trip in the Canadian Rockies. Being a total ski-addict, I jumped at the invitation. I had never been cat-skiing before, let alone skiing in Canada, so I was totally psyched for the trip.
In mid-January we drove to Fernie, British Columbia, a small town one hour north of the U.S. border. We turned off the highway and drove 4 miles up a snow covered road, and from there a snowcat took us 40 minutes up to the remotely...

The first semester of the 2009-2010 school year has officially come to an end and second semester is in full swing which is both sweet and sour.  The beginning of second semester shines a light at the end of the tunnel that is the school year.  We’re all more than half way done!  But at the same time, as we move closer to the end of the school year, time seems to tick by a little slower every day.  We the students need something both productive and extreme to pass the time and to help...