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
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.
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 rugged and wild Scotchman Peaks for future generations is helping kids “find their…
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 show…
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 on your…
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…
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…
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…
