Decadent Delights

As ICE raids continued around the country this past fall, apprehending and deporting illegal aliens (along with a few legal residents), construction at the Yellowstone Club’s new indoor ocean and white-sand beach has ground to a halt. Or at least it had, for a few hours, until Lone Mountain Land Company—the syndicate comprising the YC, Crazy Mountain Ranch, Spanish Peaks, Moonlight Basin, and other real-estate holdings metastasizing in Big Sky and beyond—called up their bedfellows in Washington to stop the supposedly “un-American impediment of progress and development,” thus leading to the YC’s inaugural “ICE Cream Social.” In attendance were a diverse assortment of initially anxious and unlikely characters: ICE agents, federal legislators, various YC big-wigs, and laborers of all creeds and colors—including one Abdul Al Rahim, a Syrian exchange student who’d been “horribly and wrongfully detained while washing windows at a member’s home,” said event organizer, Collin Inphavers. Over 30 flavors of ice cream, from vanilla to dark chocolate, kept partygoers’ taste buds tantalized, with caramel and coffee getting the most attention—though attendees who opted for pistachio, chamoy, and chai were required to show documentation before receiving their sweet treats. By all accounts, the social was a rousing success, with nervous laughter, generous gift-giving, a few veiled threats, and hearty handshakes all around. Said Abdul of the event, “They all very nice people. ICE cream man even give me new wash job! What is ‘bidet?’”