When the state cut property taxes this year, it hit organizations doing some pretty gritty work. We head to the banks of the Snake River to meet up with a team that’s still sniffing out weeds… literally. No shade on wildlife art, but we hear from artists working to bring work to Jackson Hole that’s a little weirder. Jaelin Kauf is the region’s top hope for Olympic gold in Italy this winter. We hear from her parents as the freestyle skier waves goodbye to her home mountain, Grand Targhee. And from the StoryCorps archives, we bring you to a conversation with Irene Beardsley. She and her climbing partner became the first women to summit one of the world’s tallest mountains, Annapurna, in 1978.

Music this week is from Casper the duo Pleasure People.

Jackson Unpacked airs locally at 89.1 FM or via live-stream Mondays at 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and Fridays and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. Support Jackson’s only nonprofit newsroom by becoming a member of KHOL today.

The hottest party invite in Jackson this summer is a quinceañera; we have the last in a series following one 15-year-old on her journey to this coming-of-age milestone. In Rock Springs, a community reckons with the memory of a 19th-century massacre of Chinese immigrant workers. We also share a snippet of a StoryCorps conversation with Jackson resident Curt Parker about resilience after tragedy. Lastly, we visit a new locals-only housing complex that tests what trade-offs some people are willing to make to live here.

Featuring music from Jackson band Cache Funk @cachefunkmusic.

Jackson Unpacked airs locally at 89.1 FM or via live-stream Mondays at 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and Fridays and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. Support Jackson’s only nonprofit newsroom by becoming a member of KHOL today.

This week we have another bonus episode from “The Modern West,” a production of PRX and our friends over at Wyoming Public Media. In the podcast’s 10th season, “The Gray in Between,” reporters tackle stories from a wolf incident in Sublette County last year that gained worldwide attention, to creative solutions to the affordable housing crisis, to the inevitable death of elk in the Jackson Herd, right here, in our backyard.

Today’s episode is titled “I Am What I Choose To Become” reported and produced by KHOL’s Chris Clements. Five years ago, a Northern Arapaho judge was sent to prison. Now, she helps keep Wind River residents from going back into custody.