The 2019 FSPW Extreme Plein Air Expedition is Version 10.0. During Version 1.0 — 2009 — Aaron Johnson, Jared Shear and Victor Vosen bravely — or foolishly, depending...
Author: Sandy Compton
Thank you, Ed Pulaski
Next time you are out with the FSPW trail crew or walking one of the Scotchman trails, remember Ed Pulaski. He invented (or at least, refined) the trail tool that bears...
FSPW volunteers keep trails open (and fun)
Dave Kretzschmar and Jeff Pennick love the Scotchman Peaks, and especially Scotchman Peaks trails. On a gray day in April the two trudged up Goat Mountain Trail #35 on a...
Intern Sophie Conerly is off on her big summer adventure.
Sophie Conerly drove 39 hours from Georgia to her summer quarters at Trout Creek Ranger Station on the Cabinet Ranger District. That’s a long haul, but she was excited to make the trip, ready...
In the Sun
by Kaeli Wells
I hiked down off the mountain at 3:44 in the morning. It was the day after the summer solstice and there was already a thin line of light blue along the horizon. I moved quickly...
2019 FSPW Essay winners announced.
Each year, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness (FSPW) asks seniors at high schools in Lincoln and Sanders Counties, Montana, and Bonner County, Idaho, to submit...
David Neils — Introduction to a Wild Life
By David Neils
Growing up in Libby, Montana, I was surrounded by incredibly wild and beautiful country. Our family spent a lot of time in the outdoors. There were trails headed into the...
Volunteer love!
How do Howard and Connie Shay love the Scotchman Peaks? Let them count the ways: Trail crew workers, mountain goat ambassadors, outreach specialists, Winter Tracks volunteers . . . The Shays show...