Grammatically speaking, "Scotchmans" is not OK. Except sometimes. I use this paraphrase of a verse from the song, A, Your Adorable, ("Alphabetically speaking, you're OK.") to make a point. And…
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.
Serial work days improve the Big Eddy/Pillick Ridge connection
Over the course of three days in July, two of the trails leading to Star Peak overlooking Bull River, the Clark Fork valley and Lake Pend Oreille got a makeover,…
Assimilation
Eight of us went to the wilderness, though we all often thought that we were nine. I'd turn to count us, strung out across a talus slope or gathered around…
Further confessions of a reformed couch potato: We go now.
Tomorrow morning, 8 a.m., a bunch of hikers, painters, film makers and at least one back-country EMT will gather in my front yard for a little face time before embarking…
Extreme Pleinair prehike yeilds wolf tracks and waterfalls.
On Wednesday, June 23, Thompson Falls artist Jared Shear and FSPW program coordinator Sandy Compton hiked into Ross Creek from the Cedars on a scouting mission for the upcoming Extreme…
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness and Forest Service personnel add up to a job well done.
A total of seventeen Friends from Sandpoint, Spokane, Hayden, Noxon and even Utah showed up Saturday, June 19 to help put Scotchman Peak Trail #65 “back in order” for the…
First day of summer: a day of the future, past.
Thanks to the Moody Blues, for understanding. Golden, low-angle sunshine slants from the north corner of Billiard Table. The sun is so low yet that much of Scotchman is still…
Muhlenberg students arrive July 7 to begin filming FSPW documentary
Three young film makers from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, will get an up-close-and-personal view of the Scotchman Peaks and have opportunity to film in and around the proposed wilderness…
