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42 dec. 14 - 27, 2012<br />
entertainMent<br />
in Montana, on Men’s Journal<br />
“Remote and Refined” filmed at Montana guests ranches<br />
by josePh t. o'Connor<br />
big sky weekly editor<br />
MONTANA, NEw YORK – A new<br />
video series on the Men’s Journal website<br />
is showcasing some of Montana’s finest<br />
digs, and a top talent is hosting the show.<br />
In its first two segments, “Remote and<br />
Refined,” a four-part series shot on location<br />
across the American west, features<br />
Triple Creek Ranch and the Resort at<br />
Paws up, two working Montana guest<br />
ranches.<br />
The idea is to “show off these beautiful<br />
ranches that you never knew existed,”<br />
said Ryan Van Duzer, the show’s host<br />
and a nationally acclaimed adventure<br />
personality. “Each has their own charm<br />
and beauty.”<br />
In the latest video, released on Dec. 3,<br />
Van Duzer visited Triple Creek Ranch,<br />
tucked into the bitterroot Mountains in<br />
Darby, Mont. One of 475 worldwide<br />
members of the exclusive Relais &<br />
Chateaux hotel collection, Triple Creek<br />
treated Van Duzer to the goods: fly fishing<br />
on the bitterroot River.<br />
He bagged a cutbow trout, and the<br />
resort’s chef taught him how to prepare<br />
his catch in style.<br />
The first segment in the series, shot at<br />
the Resort at Paws up in Greenough,<br />
Mont., 30 miles east of Missoula along<br />
the blackfoot River, introduced Van<br />
Duzer to glamping (glamorous camping).<br />
“Paws up is nicer than a hotel room in<br />
Manhattan,” Van Duzer said.<br />
At this working cattle ranch, which sits<br />
on 37,000 acres, glampers are treated to<br />
heated slate floors, king-sized beds and<br />
a camping butler, while having the opportunity<br />
to run cattle drives and dine<br />
at barrel-racing event dinners.<br />
what stunned Van Duzer, however,<br />
was Montana’s landscape and its<br />
sunsets. It was his first visit to big <strong>Sky</strong><br />
Country.<br />
“I totally fell in love with Montana,”<br />
the boulder, Colo. native said. “I love<br />
small town Americana.”<br />
for Van Duzer, the adventure film segments<br />
are nothing new.<br />
The 33-year-old video journalist and<br />
filmmaker has hosted and produced<br />
more than 70 videos, appearing on the<br />
Travel Channel, the History Channel<br />
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and National Geographic. He is currently<br />
found on the Discovery Channel,<br />
working on “Out of the wild,” an<br />
adventure reality show shot in Venezuela.<br />
but Van Duzer, who has a broadcast<br />
journalism degree from the university<br />
of Colorado-boulder, had to cut his<br />
teeth like any journalist. In 2006, he<br />
launched his first show, an adventure<br />
program called “Out There,” on boulder<br />
Public Access TV, Channel 54.<br />
“I was living in my mom’s basement and<br />
wasn’t making any money,” Van Duzer<br />
said. “but all I needed was money for<br />
Doritos and a few beers.”<br />
The show, which aired three times a<br />
day around the flatirons, caught the local<br />
newspaper’s eye. The Boulder Daily<br />
Camera asked Van Duzer to produce a<br />
weekly adventure series for the paper’s<br />
website, and it set his career in motion.<br />
In 2007, after a two-year stint in the<br />
Peace Corps in Honduras, Van Duzer<br />
set out on a trip that marked both his<br />
sense of adventure and his success:<br />
He rode his bicycle from Honduras to<br />
boulder.<br />
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Afterward, he sent a short video<br />
about the 4,000-mile bike ride to the<br />
Travel Channel, which aired on the<br />
station’s “what’s Your Trip,” hosted<br />
by television personality Andrew<br />
Zimmern. The Travel Channel then<br />
began showing Van Duzer’s work<br />
regularly.<br />
“I want to make people happy,” Van<br />
Duzer said. “I don’t do this stuff to<br />
show off, it’s so I can inspire people.”<br />
The ‘out there guy,’ as he is affectionately<br />
known in boulder, plans to keep<br />
on trucking and get people off their<br />
couches and into adventure.<br />
As he’d say at the end of each show<br />
on Channel 54, pointing into the<br />
camera: “Get out there!”<br />
The third episode of “Remote and<br />
Refined” was filmed in Wyoming and<br />
will air in January, while the final<br />
segment has yet to be shot. Van Duzer<br />
said the plan is for Colorado or Utah,<br />
and it will hit the website in February.<br />
For more on Ryan Van Duzer and<br />
to view “Remote and Refined,” visit<br />
mensjournal.com/adventure/remoteand-refined.<br />
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