Math was never a weak subject for me, but it seems that I might have flunked it when I was adding up the years since my first trip carrying the red and black patrol pack (See Confessions of a reformed couch potato: Part 1). I said 15 years. Maybe it seems like 15 years, but it was really only 12. That meander into Blue Creek was in 1998.
Perhaps I just didn’t want to admit that I was a couch potato for that long. It was in the summer of 1980 — that’s 18 years before! — that I was …
Have you been enjoying the amazing Plein Air Art inspired by the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness area, but wanted to see some of it in the flesh (or, more accurately, canvas)?
You’re in luck! The Scotchman Wilderness Plein Air Art Show now has a new venue where you can come enjoy looking at a few of the more outstanding pieces while sipping a glass of wine.
For the next two months, Gormandie, a new upscale wine shop and deli that is now open at Schweitzer Mountain Village, is showing ten of our best …
The question “Does Wilderness Have Value?” was explored by students from four Sanders County schools, who submitted essays for a contest sponsored by the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness.
Project coordinator Ernie Scherzer had high praise for the essays, saying he could think of few examples of student writing that could equal some of the winners. He has been a teacher, and now a school volunteer, for over 50 years, as well as advisor to a student literary magazine.
Scherzer noted that younger authors did extremely well. The contest is open to middle and high school students.
McKenna Krueger, a seventh …
This year’s 2nd Annual FSPW Photo Contest had some fantastic photos entered into it.
Congratulations to everyone who entered! We had over 50 photos this year, and narrowing them down to the top three in each of our categories was difficult, but of course it had to be done.
Here are this years 1st, 2nd and 3rd place choices for each of our four categories, along with some honorable mentions.
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Fifteen talented plein air artists began arriving in Hope, ID, on Friday Sept 18th, from Washington, Montana, and Idaho. They met for dinner at Kally Thurman’s (Outskirts Gallery) home on the Sam Owen Peninsula to renew friendships and plan their painting strategy for the weekend. Before dawn they fanned out to the Clark Fork Delta, Heron, and Bull River to find their special view of our favorite spots, and paint.
This spontaneous work rich with the smell of fresh paint was framed and hung for the public to view on Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the Outskirts Gallery in …
By now most everyone has heard about the legislation recently introduced by Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana), which includes almost 700,000 acres of wilderness. This message to the Friends of Scotchman Peaks will attempt to answer some common questions and provide links to more …
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