Our 2009 Annual report is finished and available for your reading pleasure. We’re very proud of all of our accomplishments from the past year, and our annual report is already drawing rave reviews! Download the PDF here: http://www.scotchmanpeaks.org/annual-reports/
Spanning the Idaho/Montana border, the Scotchmans are one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region. We conduct education, outreach and stewardship activities to preserve the rugged, scenic and biologically diverse 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks Roadless Area. We believe the Scotchman Peaks deserve congressional designation as Wilderness for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft, and Ski
March 30th, 2010
Today we take an in depth look at the second event in the April “Adventure Series” sponsored by the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness: “A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft, and Ski”
Join Erin and Hig on Wednesday, April 7, at 6PM at the Sandpoint Community Hall. Hear readings from Erin’s new book, [...]
Journey Along the Divide
March 29th, 2010
Next week the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will sponsor two exciting presentations as part of our “Scotchman Peaks Adventure Series.”
Today we will take an in depth look at the first presentation. On Monday April 5th Phil Hough and Deb Hunsicker will present “Journey Along the Continental Divide”, recounting their summer 2009 hike from [...]
Summer hikes and Scotchman Peak trail work day
March 26th, 2010
Lots of room for more summer hikes
Our summer hike series for 2010 has a good head start with seven hikes already planned and even published in the Montana Wilderness Association summer hike book, but we have room for more. The dates of the committed hikes are May 29 (East Fork of Blue Creek), June 5 [...]
Visit us at the April 11 Telluride Mountain Film Festival at the Panida
March 26th, 2010
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will have a table at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint for the Telluride Film Festival, sponsored by the Selway-Bitterroot Foundation. The Festival will be presented on Sunday, April 11. Doors open at 6 pm and the films start at 7. Come early, grab a beer and stop by our table [...]
FSPW brings adventurers Erin and Hig to Sandpoint April 7
March 26th, 2010
In June 2007, Alaskan author Erin McKittrick and her husband Bretwood “Hig” Higman embarked on a 4,000-mile, human-powered, year-long expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness invite you to join this brave couple on Wednesday, April 7, at 6 pm at the Sandpoint Community Hall for stories and readings [...]
Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society hosts FSPW Adventure Series Presentation
March 26th, 2010
The Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society invite you to enjoy a Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Adventure Series presentations. Join FSPW exec Phil Hough and Deb Hunsicker, intrepid through-hikers for a special presentation: “Journey Along the Continental Divide” on Monday April 5th at 6:00pm in the Sandpoint Community Hall, open to the public, free of charge. [...]
Friends Meet Friends
March 22nd, 2010
This week we go on the road!
The Friends of the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge have invited us to make a presentation to their members and public. Call it a “friendly visit”, as the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness takes our power point show north on a road trip on Thursday March 25th.
Sandy Compton and Phil [...]
The continued confessions of a reformed couch potato – third in the series
March 18th, 2010
For the first few years of my continued reformation from couch potato, I went backpacking with no one but me. I had a lot to learn, and my best method of learning is having to do it myself. Humility is not a strong point (Did someone just yell, “Ya think?”), and being “taught” is often [...]
Cabinet Resource Group Annual Meeting
March 16th, 2010
On Sat March 27th, CRG (the Cabinet Resource Group) will hold it’s annual meeting at the Big Horn Lodge (located at Mile Marker 7 on the Bull River Highway 56 just north of Noxon MT). The fun starts at 4pm with a social hour (BYOB) followed by a potluck dinner at 5pm. There will be [...]
Confessions of a reformed couch potato: Part 2
March 11th, 2010
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 [...]
Walkin Jim Wanders Into Sanders County
March 10th, 2010
Walkin Jim visited Sanders County this last week, bringing his unique blend of inspiring songs and slides. I must confess at the outset, Walkin Jim is a personal hero. Having walked over 27,000 miles, Jim is the envy of many a long distance hiker such as myself!
But what I admire most about Jim, is the [...]
FSPW presents to downtown Spokane Kiwanis Club
March 10th, 2010
At the invitation of their president, Matthew Ries, Executive Director Phil Hough presented the FSPW power point to the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Spokane on March 9.
Phil spoke to an appreciative audience of about 40, including Spokesman Review outdoor editor Rich Landers. 14 of those present signed up as Friends.
The club, which was formed [...]
Confessions of a reformed couch potato: Part 1
March 4th, 2010
Sometime in the decade before last, I awoke from a long hiatus from a physical life and realized that I hadn’t been anywhere with a pack on my back for an embarrassingly long time — well over a decade. In fact, I didn’t even own a decent backpack. Or a packable tent or stove. I [...]
Libby Film Fest great success
March 3rd, 2010
125 folks in a room designed to hold about 100 might seem crowded, but no one seemed to mind too much as a standing-room-only crowd at Libby’s Little Theatre enjoyed three films from International Wildlife Film Festival (www.wildlifefilms.org)
This free show, sponsored by FSPW, netted a number of new Friends, as well as a good dose [...]
A Toothless Lion
March 1st, 2010
Today is March 1st. Here in our corner of Idaho the sky is blue and the temperature is approaching 50F. Down in the valleys the snow is all gone, save for the smallest of well shaded patches that piled up during the last large storm, which fell a couple months ago back in early January. [...]
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