Paws Up was included in this week’s Indagare newsletter and website! The newsletter highlights a round up of top tents for “glamping®”. In Melissa Biggs-Bradley’s “Just Back From” post, it sounds like she was impressed! Click Here to read the post.
Guest Post: Ellien Landy, Altour Travel
Travel is my business and joy. In an effort to keep you abreast of unique possibilities that you might find interesting, I am writing to you with my thoughts on my most recent trip. The Resort at Paws Up in Montana is an easily reachable destination. The privately owned resort sits on a mere 37,000 acres with a selection of accommodations ranging from luxury tents to huge 3-bedroom homes that could comfortably sleep 8 people. The Resort focuses on wide open spaces and activities for the guests. My personal activities included clay shooting, river rafting, a romp on the ATVs culminated by my leap of faith off the side of the mountain. Rappelling may not be for everyone, but it sure was exciting. Check out this clip of my rappel.
Happy Travels!
Ellien
4th of July Video
Check out this video from our 4th of July celebration!
Independence Day, Paws Up Style
Our annual 4th of July celebration was once again a stunning success, -thanks to our fun-loving, creative guests, our hard-working staff and of course another beautiful Montana summer evening. The evening starts out with the buggy parade from the Wilderness Outpost to the Cookshack. The competition seems to get tougher and tougher every year as our guests try to outdo one another to have the most festive and creative (sometimes a little too creative) decorated Mountain Buggy or Greenough Clean Machine in hopes of taking home the coveted “Best Buggy Award” –think of the bragging rights at the yacht club or boardroom when you bring that baby home! The buggies in this year’s parade included the Uncle Sam buggy complete with marching Statue of Liberty’s and multiple Uncle Sam’s , a 4th of July Montana-Style buggy and the ultimate winner, a Greenough Clean Machine transformed in to a glamping tent complete with timber frame by the Cohn family.
Following the parade, the guests participated in traditional lawn games including sack races; pass the orange and the scandalous team event “eating a donut on a licorice rope”. After a beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by restaurant server, Beth Clausen, guests were invited to Chef Coffel’s Regional American BBQ. Throughout the evening guests participated in scored activities including Sporting Clays, Fly Casting, Water Balloon slingshot, paint ball and archery. The final competition of the evening was the world-famous pie eating contest and the West family’s showing in the top three enabled them to claim the top prize in the 4th of July Family Competition.
As dark settled on the Blackfoot Valley, guests gathered around the fire pit, the lawn and, in some cases, the bar to enjoy the fireworks display. It was a great show and guests continue to be amazed at how impressive the fireworks show is year after year.
The guests loved the evening and many rebooked immediately for next year. The competition for Best Buggy and Family Competition in 2010 promises to be even more intense than this year, so if you are joining us next year, get you game face on, you’re going to need it.
-Jim Nielsen
“A Luxurious Wilderness Safari…in the U.S.”
That’s what JG Blackbook President Jena Gardner called Paws Up in a recent article. She went on to list the Top 5 reasons to stay at The Resort at Paws Up:
1. Luxury Oasis
2. Camping in Style
3. High-Country Adventure
4. Family Fun
5. Gourmet Dining
She also made reference to our incredible June Rates, which are now 60% off July and August rates. Click Here to read the entire article.
“Glamping®” at Paws Up Featured by Kiwi Collection
“Glamping” at Paws Up was just featured in Kiwi Collection’s Jetsetter publication. Ashley Dufek wrote a wonderful article, including the following observation: “Resort at Paws Up is the Perfect Place to ‘Glamp.'” Click Here to read the entire article.
Many Paws Up!
We’ve put together a “motion picture” that captures Wine & Bitch 2009! Enjoy!
Senior Travel at Paws Up
Grace Lichtenstein just published a great article on suite101 about luxury senior travel in Montana. She mentioned The Resort at Paws Up as a destination for a “more upscale western vacation”. Click Here to read the article.
The Starting Lineup….
It is our great pleasure to announce this year’s lineup for Montana Master Chefs 2009 (10/8/09 – 10/10/09). We have an extremely strong lineup of chefs and winemakers this year and MMC ’09 promises to be the best ever. Thursday’s Dinner will be prepared by our very own Chef, Wes Coffel and will be paired with the fabulous wines of Frog’s Leap Winery. We are so excited to have the winners from the past two seasons of Bravo TV’s Top Chef, Stephanie Izard (Season 4) and this year’s winner, Hosea Rosenberg that we are featuring the two of them as co-chefs for Friday Night’s dinner. Stephanie and Hosea will work together with Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars to pair their culinary creations with the famous wines of this Napa Valley institution. On Saturday night we welcome Chef Kent Rathbun, Executive Chef/Proprietor of Abacus and Jasper Restaurants in Dallas who is pairing his menu with the wines of Joseph Phelps Vineyards.
In my post titled “Proud to Announce”, I talked about Chef Rathbun and Frog’s Leap Winery so I wanted to make sure I gave our latest additions to the lineup equal time.
Joseph Phelps Vineyards has been producing some of Napa Valley’s finest wines for over 30 years. They have been innovators and pioneers in the industry since the beginning – their 1974 Insignia was the first Bordeaux-style blend produced in California under a proprietary label. Their Insignia and Backus wines continue to be some of the highest rated, most sought-after and finest wines produced. I can’t wait to try them this year.
Chef Stephanie Izard, winner of Bravo’s hit show “Top Chef” season 4 and Executive Chef/Proprietor of The Drunken Goat in Chicago will join us again this year. We really enjoyed Stephanie’s company last year. For those of you that are fans of Top Chef or saw her in action at last year’s event; you know she is a fierce competitor, a great chef and a genuinely nice person. Stephanie is the defending champion of our Top Chef Cook-Off Chall
enge and this year will be challenged by Top Chef Season 5 winner, Chef Hosea Rosenberg. Hosea is the Executive Chef of Jax Fish House in Boulder and is looking to extend his competition winning streak in 2009. We are looking forward to a great battle between these two winning chefs in Saturday’s Top Chef Cook-Off Challenge as well as seeing them work as a team preparing Friday Night’s dinner.
Pairing with Stephanie and Hosea will be Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars wines are world-renowned and history making: On May 24, 1976, a wine tasting took place in Paris that changed the world’s view of California wines forever. The French wines were First and other classified-growth red Bordeaux and white Burgundies. They were matched against California Cabernet Sauvignons and Chardonnays. The tasting was blind, with the identities of the wines concealed and the labels revealed only after the jury of nine tasters had voted its order of preference. The unthinkable happened. Warren Winiarski’s 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet was judged the best. The Cabernet had bested four top-ranked Bordeaux, including first-growths Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Haut-Brion. The 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay from California also bested its French counterparts (for those of you keeping score, Jim Barrett from Chateau Montelena joined us for Montana Master Chefs I). It will be a pleasure to partake in some of these historic wines, whether it is the S.L.V, Fay or Cask 23, I can hardly wait for October.
We have also partnered with Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars on a live auction lot for this year’s Auction Napa Valley. Our lot is titled Big Bottles, Big Sky – The “Big Bottles, Big Sky” experience begins with a rare vertical of highly collectible CASK 23 Cabernet Sauvignon in bottles of extraordinary size and grandeur along with a five-night Big Sky adventure vacation with us here at The Resort at Paws Up. We are thrilled and excited to be a part of this wonderful charity event in the Napa Valley and to be paired with such a magnificent collection of wines from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.
Hope to see all of you at Montana Master Chefs 2009 as well as Auction Napa Valley 2009.
Cheers.
-Jim Nielsen, General Manager
Top 10 Family Getaway
Linden Travel just named Paws Up as a “Top Ten Family Getaway” on their blog. As they say, it’s time to start planning your family summer vacation. Our luxury tents, spacious homes, horses, ATVs, restaurants, and, of course, our staff are all ready for you. Are you and your family ready to have the experience of a lifetime?