Big Sky’s mental health and wellness resource navigation tool.

In today’s dynamic fitness and sports training landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in aiding athletes and health-conscious individuals in their quest for peak performance.

Opportunities for self-comparison and judgment seem to be lurking around every corner for our kids, from social media influencers posting carefully edited scenes about their best life—or so it appears—to the latest news story about another student setting a new athletic record or getting a perfect ACT score.

A solid foundation—it’s something necessary to build upon. To build this foundation, no matter what the foundation is for, you need tools.

We turn the calendar page to a new year. Once again, we see goals, resolutions and promises spike to a new all-time high.

By Jeremy Harder GUEST COLUMNIST
Ski town facts—the hustle, bustle, and diverse social dynamics that often amplify mental health and substance use challenges, have arrived. For most of us, the motion has been set in force. Out-of-town drivers in mental lapses of wonderment of Big Sky poorly navigating 5,000-pound vehicles, frantic food shoppers filing through local markets with unattended carts, blind to people around them or lacking peripheral vision, and the youth running wild after being released from school for 12 and a half days, only to run amuck with visions of powdery ski days in the terrain park and never-ending bags of Nerds Gummy Clusters.

By Andy Nagel EBS COLUMNIST

Age is just a number, and so is your number of days.

In today’s world of rapidly advancing technology, it’s easy to access data tracking our health, finances, energy consumption, and so much more. Much of this data serves as an aid to efficiently navigate our roller coaster of life. For many skiers and snowboarders, there is no greater data than the number of days we ski or ride in a winter season. We wear it like a badge of honor.