When people from Cody, Wyoming, say that winter "blows the assholes away," it's both a lighthearted joke and a prayer. The town sits about an hour east of Yellowstone National Park, and for much of the year, it hosts droves of tourists, until they're swept out by freezing winds that gust in from the mountains with near-hurricane force. "You can be blown off a trail, horse and all," a meteorologist warned in the local paper.
Staying here long-term is considered proof of a person's mettle, and the 9,000+ souls who call Cody home treat its wild, natural landscape like an oasis meant only for those who know. With fewer residents than nearby action-sports hubs Bozeman and Denver, this is where you come if you're an outdoor enthusiast who wants to get away from outdoor enthusiasts.
When I, a journalist visiting from New York City and blending in not at all, first got to town, locals seemed most concerned about me outing their favorite fly-fishing hole—never mind the fact that my pop culture beat could not be further from "hot spots for hooking trophy trout."
All of this is to say that when rapper Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, purchased a multimillion-dollar property just over 10 miles from main street in September 2019, the emotions of Cody residents oscillated somewhere between pissed and pleased.
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