In the incredible Scotchman Peaks, summer has flown past with its usual urgency. It seems like just yesterday we gathered on a rainy day at the Scotchman Peak trailhead to...
Author: Sandy Compton
Winter Tracks 2020 is just around the corner.
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness volunteers close the
age gap with Winter Tracks
Part of saving the...
Scotchman Peaks trails: Open and ready for hiking and hunting season
Trails in the Scotchman Peaks are open and ready for hiking and hunting seasons. This is due in part to Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness trail crews. FSPW volunteers...
10 years of Extreme Plein Air
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...
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...