In its fifth season, the 2020 Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Winter Tracks program was a big success in outdoor education. Nearly 50 FSPW volunteers showed over 325 students from…
Author: Sandy Compton
Sandy Compton has been program coordinator for Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness since 2009. He is also a storyteller and author of both fiction and non-fiction books, and the publisher at bluecreekpress.com.
In addition to his other duties, he runs the FSPW All Star Trail Team (www.scotchmanpeaks.org/trails), which works on Forest Service trails in the Scotchman Peaks. He is a trail surveyor as well, and a C-Certified Crosscut Bucker/Feller and USFS National Saw Policy OHLEC instructor.
Sandy grew up on a small farm/woodlot at the south end of the proposed wilderness and lives there still. He is also board member of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance and a planning team member for the Northern Rockies Wilderness Skills Institute.
Snow Cave: A winter adventure
By Christine Tefta, Priest River High School Class of 2019 Not long ago, in the early days of March, I set off near Silver Mountain on a backpacking exhibition. With…
Round Lake and Winter Tracks: A natural combination.
Round Lake State Park and Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness have been partners in outdoor education for five years. Round Lake hosted its first Winter Tracks in 2015, and manager…
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness 2020 scholarship competition open for entries
For over a decade, Friends of Scotchman Peaks has given high school seniors a chance to show their love for wild country. This year, the FSPW scholarship competition will award…
The very FIRST (FSPW) 2020 beer-drinking event is Jan. 6
It may not be the FIRST beer-drinking event of the year. After all, there’s a lot of football to watch in the next few days. But the Laughing Dog Brews…
Celebrating winter in our wild back yard.
Winter has arrived, and the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness (FSPW) winter hike season is right behind. In every season, FSPW volunteers lead hikers into and around the edges of…
FSPW outdoor programs for kids: game changer, life changer
It’s a pleasure to see kids light up at natural things, and Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness volunteers and staff often have the pleasure. FSPW family hikes are sometimes populated…
Grateful to be home in the wild.
When I was five, my parents made me WALK from the Lucky Star mine to the end of what became Forest Road 409. It was horrible — or I thought…
