Twelve years leading groups in the woods has taught me not to fall in love with a plan. Wild things tend to happen in wild places. This lesson has been…
Author: NoAuthor
Roughly 60 miles south of Canada, the 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks roadless area spans the Idaho-Montana border. Since the 1970s, when the U.S. Forest Service carried out extensive evaluations of lands suitable for wilderness, this rugged, scenic and biologically diverse portion of the Cabinet Mountains has been managed for its wilderness potential. The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness believe now is the time to preserve the Scotchmans, one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region.
Voices in the Wilderness – Andrea Nagel
In Times of Trouble, Turn to Nature When life feels overwhelming, or I find myself weighed down by uncertainty, I turn to the mountains, rivers, and forests of northern Idaho.…
Voices in the Wilderness – Sami Wilfong
As I started my second semester of my junior year at Boise State University, the only thing on my mind was the fact that our first week of classes was…
Voices in the Wilderness – Tim Kerrigan
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in the Pacific Northwest, which was a paradise for a high-energy kid like myself. Many days were spent exploring the surrounding woods,…
Trail Talk: The Ten Essentials for Hiking
A primer for new hikers (and old) In 1906, a group of hikers from the Seattle area separated themselves from a larger organization, Mazama, which was based in Portland, and…
Voices in the Wilderness – Marlin Thorman
A promising forecast had me excited about getting into the Cabinet Mountains despite having just finished up a trip there 10 days earlier. And so, on a Thursday I found…
Voices in the Wilderness – Turns East
I first came to Idaho in 1975 from Marquette, MI and worked as a seasonal GS-3 trail crew leader with Mike Blendin from Columbia, MO. Bill Wells was our supervisor.…
Voices in the Wilderness – Arrow Christopherson
The Beauty and Joy of the Wild When I was a young boy, my father took me on my first camping trip to a mountain lake, just the two of…
