Chef Alayah just accepted a position at one of the American West's most celebrated fine dining restaurants.
We're not saying where yet. The name drops June 1st — the day she starts.
Built where most people
would quit. Six years in.
Still unfinished.
The lodge is not built yet. The bistro is not open yet. The tiny-home village doesn't exist yet. But the dream is no longer soft around the edges. Six years of deep snow, excavation, breakdowns, off-grid systems, family sacrifice, culinary training, and hard lessons at 8,150 feet have sharpened Elev8150 into something real — honed like one of Alayah's custom chef knives. Now we're asking for help finishing what the mountain helped forge.
Bistro 8150: Chef Alayah trained at The Ranch at Rock Creek — the world's first Forbes Five-Star guest ranch — and The Resort at Paws Up, home to a James Beard-nominated culinary team. She just accepted a new position at one of the most celebrated fine dining restaurants in the American West. She starts June 1st. We're not saying where yet.
Elev8150 is not open yet.
Here's exactly where it stands.
Elev8150 is not a finished lodge, restaurant, or tiny-home village. Today it is a raw, family-built mountain project at 8,150 feet in Anaconda, Montana. The excavation is done. Six years of access, off-grid systems, snow routes, and mountain infrastructure have been tested through real winters. The concept is proven. The next step is construction.
Crowdfunding is how we move from surviving and preparing to actually building the lodge, bistro, and small off-grid mountain destination we've spent years working toward.
See What Exists Now"Look how far we got without investors.
Now help us finish it."
Six years of proof
before asking for a dollar.
We found 8,150 feet above Anaconda, Montana. No utilities. No road. No outside money. We waited until the kids were older, until the access was tested through real winters, until the dream stopped being a fantasy and became a plan.
We didn't ask anyone for money because we didn't think we'd earned it yet. After six years of work — we think we have.
Why We're Asking NowThe chef just landed
her next chapter.
Bistro 8150 is not open yet. But the chef behind it just accepted a position at one of the most celebrated fine dining restaurants in the American West — starting June 1st. We're not saying where yet. What we will say: she earned it, the raise proves it, and the skills she brings back to this mountain keep growing.
The restaurant pad is excavated. The culinary program is designed. The building goes up with crowdfunding support.
Meet Chef AlayahShe didn't train
for this job.
She just leveled up
again.
Before Bistro 8150 has served its first guest, its chef has already cooked for guests who pay $8,000 a person to eat in Montana.
Two seasons. Two of Montana's most celebrated resort kitchens. And now — a new position just accepted at one of the most respected fine dining restaurants in the American West. She starts June 1st. We're keeping the name under wraps until she walks through the door. The resume keeps building. The kitchen at Bistro 8150 is still being built to meet her.
The Ranch at Rock Creek
Philipsburg, Montana
The world's first Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star guest ranch. A Relais & Châteaux property. A National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World — a designation held by no other ranch or resort in the United States.
Their culinary program runs multi-course tasting menus, wood-fire grill dinners, regionally sourced Montana ingredients, and organic wine pairings — every night, for guests whose expectations match the rating.
The Resort at Paws Up
Greenough, Montana — 37,000 acres
Montana's most decorated luxury ranch resort. Executive Chef Sunny Jin trained at The French Laundry, El Bulli, and Tetsuya's. His culinary team includes multiple James Beard-nominated chefs.
Alayah worked inside that team. Private camp dining pavilions — dedicated chefs per guest group, nightly-changing menus, ranch-to-table sourcing — for guests paying $5,000–$8,800 per person per stay.
Private camp dining
Dedicated chef, dedicated space, exclusive group experience. Paws Up's highest-rated offering. The exact Bistro 8150 model — already mastered in a professional kitchen.
Nightly-changing seasonal menus
Both kitchens change with the land. Alayah builds programs around what Montana gives — not a static menu. That discipline is in her hands.
Outdoor & fire-based cooking
Chuck wagon dinners. Wood-fire grills. Al fresco service in Montana conditions. Cooking exceptional food outside, in real weather, for guests who expect perfection.
At 22, Alayah already holds credentials that took some chefs a career to earn — and just accepted her most prestigious position yet. Details drop June 1st.
Two seasons. Two Forbes-rated, James Beard-adjacent kitchens. A culinary program designed from scratch for the mountain her family built. That's the foundation Bistro 8150 opens on — before a single guest has walked through the door.
This is the dinner experience
we are building toward.
After a day in the backcountry, the goal is not to bring guests back to a cafeteria or reheated lodge meal. The vision for Bistro 8150 is a small, fire-lit mountain dining room where Chef Alayah's training, Montana ingredients, and the story of this place come together around the table.
It is not open yet. But the culinary foundation keeps growing — two seasons at Montana's finest resort kitchens, and now a new position at one of the most celebrated fine dining restaurants in the American West. She starts June 1st. We're not saying where yet.
"At Elev8150, the experience doesn't end when the adventure does. It evolves."
— The Bistro 8150 philosophyPrivate dinners. Après-ski gatherings. Destination weddings. Corporate retreats. Each one shaped by a chef with world-class training and a personal stake in every plate that leaves this kitchen.
Honeydew Gazpacho · Salted Strawberries · Chiffonade Spearmint · Lemon Oil
Tomato Terrine · Buttermilk Cracker · Buttermilk Dust
Peach & Fennel Gazpacho · Lemon Chèvre · Pistachio & Honey Cracker
Intimate chef-led dinners
Small groups. Personal service. A menu built that morning around what the season and the land provide.
Fire & Montana heritage
Wood fire is not a gimmick at 8,150 feet. Every menu reflects the landscape outside the window.
Après-ski culture, elevated
Discovery Ski Area is nearby. When the day ends, Bistro 8150 is where it finishes — properly.
Events & private dining
Weddings, retreats, and private events at an elevation that makes everywhere else feel ordinary.
Year-round mountain table
Powder season. Wildflower summer. Elk-season autumn. Each one a different menu, same unmatched location.
Building a resort at
8,150 feet — earned
the hard way.
Storm survival. Firewood hauling. Off-grid systems. Medical runs in blizzards. The daily grind of building at elevation. No filters. No press releases. Just the mountain and the family building it.
"The mountain doesn't care how long you've been working. It doesn't reward effort. It just keeps being the mountain. We kept building anyway."— Brandon Bellrose, Elev8150 · Anaconda, Montana
What crowdfunding
helps finish.
None of these exist yet as finished, guest-ready spaces. All of them are planned, designed, and — with support — being built. This is what your backing goes toward.
The Mountain Lodge · BEING BUILT
Lavacrete walls. Passive solar design. Frontier-milled timber. The building pad is excavated and ready. The lodge does not exist yet — your support is what starts construction. Non-combustible, Victron-powered, zero grid connection.
Bistro 8150 · NOT OPEN YET
The chef has Forbes Five-Star training. The restaurant pad is excavated. The culinary program is fully designed. Bistro 8150 is not open yet — it opens when the building is funded and built. This is what your support makes possible.
60,000 acres of roadless
Montana wilderness.
Elev8150 sits inside the Flint Creek Range — formed by tectonic forces 100 million years ago, now home to untracked powder, wild trout, elk in serious numbers, and mountain terrain that rewards commitment. This is year-round country. The mountain never shuts down — it transforms.
6+ feet of snowpack. Untracked backcountry skiing with ~3,000 ft vertical. Sled-in access — the snowmobile is how you get here and how you explore.
Explore Winter →Georgetown Lake rainbow trout. Westslope cutthroat in remote alpine lakes. Alpine singletrack through old-growth timber. High-performance UTV on sub-alpine forest roads.
Explore Summer →Rocky Mountain elk, mule deer, and blue grouse in 60,000 acres of roadless units. Aspen gold, early snow, and terrain that almost no one reaches.
Explore Fall →Access, logistics, avalanche conditions, mountain report, and real-time field notes from the Bellrose family living it year-round at 8,150 feet.
Six years of doing
the slow part ourselves.
We learned the mountain. We raised our kids here. We tested the access, the snow, the equipment, the cost, the isolation, the weather, and the limits of doing it without investors.
We waited until the kids were older. Until Alayah had built her culinary path. Until we understood what it truly costs to work at 8,150 feet. Until the dream stopped being a fantasy and became a plan.
Now we are ready for the next phase. Crowdfunding allows early supporters to help turn years of real work into the first guest-ready version of Elev8150.
This is not a
polished resort campaign.
Early support helps move Elev8150 from raw mountain infrastructure into a working destination. Funding goes toward the practical pieces that make the dream usable:
- —Building materials for the lodge and bistro
- —Guest infrastructure and utility systems
- —Kitchen development for Bistro 8150
- —Winter access and safety systems
- —Equipment needed to keep building at elevation
This is a family trying to finish something real.
Not a funded resort group
Not a finished lodge, bistro, or village
Not asking you to book a finished resort
Not pretending the hard part is done
A family that got farther than most thought we could
Six years of road life, winters, and stubborn work
A real mountain with a real plan and real proof
Finally ready to ask for help finishing it
You are not being sold a finished resort.
You are being invited into the moment before it becomes one.
Be woven into what
Elev8150 becomes.
These aren't product tiers. They're four ways to have a real stake in an off-grid Montana mountain lodge — before the doors open, before the reservations fill, before the world knows this place exists.
This is early support for a build in progress — not a booking for a finished resort.
Your money goes directly into the work — materials, fuel, equipment — and your name goes into the founding record.
- Direct build updates
- Named in the founding record
- Victron-featured off-grid build
Put real money behind a future stay before anyone else. When Elev8150 opens, you'll be first in — with credit already on the books.
- Future stay credit
- First access to booking
- Named as a founding guest
Alayah trained at Montana's finest resort kitchens. A seat at her table — literally — before it's offered to the public.
- Future stay credit
- Private dining experience
- Bistro 8150 priority access
A very small number of people will be part of this foundation in a way that lasts — told to every guest who ever asks how Elev8150 got built.
- Private chef experience
- Priority event access
- Permanent recognition in the story
Start with $1.
It still matters.
The founding reservation isn't charity and it isn't a product. It's a signal. Two hundred people putting a dollar down — voluntarily, refundably — tells every future investor that this place has a real audience.
Your $1 reservation does not mean Elev8150 is open today. It means you want to be first in line as the build moves toward future stays, dining, and founding offers.
47 of 200 spots claimed · The list closes at 200
- Your name on the founding reservation list
- Early access before any public announcement
- Priority for stays, dining, and founding offers
- Direct build updates — real news, not social posts
- Proof you believed in this before it was easy to
Fully refundable at any time. No questions asked.
One time · Fully refundable
As featured in the UK Mirror & BBC New Lives in the Wild
"I was Elev8150's first supporter — I've been with this family since the very beginning. The Bellroses are extraordinarily dedicated. They claw their way through every struggle and every difficulty this mountain throws at them. What I love most is their absolute refusal to give up."
Connie Brashear · Founding Backer · First Supporter
You're not backing
a project. You're backing
a family.
Brandon — industrial designer, SIU Rickert-Ziebold Award recipient, founder of Hummer Extreme Adventures, former CEO of a 40-person company, 14 years of backcountry living. Alisa — the one who originally found this land, whose idea this entire project was. Alayah — who started as a dishwasher at 16, commuted to work by snowmobile, and trained at two of Montana's finest resort kitchens. Trinity, Brailen, Tristan — kids who chose this mountain life when they could have chosen anything else.
Elev8150 is Alisa's idea, built by Brandon's hands, fueled by Alayah's kitchen, and lived in by all of them — every single day at 8,150 feet.
Meet the Crew
Thirty years doing things that
didn't exist until he made them.
SIU Rickert-Ziebold Award in Industrial Design. Pioneer of H1 Hummer touring in Colorado. CEO of a 40-person Las Vegas advertising company. Fourteen years of full-time backcountry travel across the western United States. Every chapter built the skills this mountain demanded.
Brandon's Full Story"The jeep platform was engineered to transport four adults off-road effectively. Tour guides were loading eight or more passengers — overloading every single element of the vehicle's engineering."
— Brandon Bellrose · Founder, Hummer Extreme Adventures
That instinct — seeing a problem no one else had fixed — is the same instinct building Elev8150 at 8,150 feet while everyone else said it couldn't be done.
Get updates from the mountain.
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We respect your privacy. Real updates only.
Elev8150 is not asking you
to believe in a fantasy.
Help us finish something real.
If this mountain project speaks to you — claim a $1 founding reservation, support the build, share the story, or follow along as we turn six years of work into the next phase of Elev8150.
Dine with Chef Alayah
The Experience Is Built Around Food…
Elev8150 isn’t just a place to stay — it’s a place to gather.
After a long day in the mountains, everything comes together around the table.
Alayah has spent the last five years working in high-end kitchens to prepare for this moment — building the skills to serve everyone from a tired traveler to a private wedding or corporate retreat.
This is what turns Elev8150 into a destination.
Follow along with Chef Alayah’s current culinary happenings.
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