On this last day of April, we are headed for the MWA Convention in Whitefish, "we" being FSPW staff members Phil Hough, Charlie Clough and Sandy Compton, as well as…
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.
Earth Day Week was great for making new Friends
As in any other endeavor, some weeks are better than others in the wilderness "business," and Earth Day week was stellar for the Friends of Scotchman Peaks. We made many…
Confessions of a Reformed Couch Potato: Nomadism
Confessions of a Reformed Couch Potato is a continuing series about the wilderness experiences of a fallen country boy brought back to life by wild country. Find past Potato posts…
Confessions of a former couch potato: Elk and the two-syllable word.
In my last couch potato confession, I alluded to the process of learning to think like an elk — a helpful ability in the back country of the Scotchman Peaks,…
Top however many reasons to be a FSPW volunteer or hike leader.
This started out as a top 10 reasons list ala David Letterman, but there are sooo many good reasons to be a FSPW volunteer, it was hard to stop. We…
Summer hikes and Scotchman Peak trail work day
Lots of room for more summer hikes Our summer hike series for 2010 has a good head start with seven hikes already planned and even published in the Montana Wilderness…
The continued confessions of a reformed couch potato – third in the series
For the first few years of my continued reformation from couch potato, I went backpacking with no one but me. I had a lot to learn, and my best method…
Confessions of a reformed couch potato: Part 2
Math was never a weak subject for me, but it seems that I might have flunked it when I was adding up the years since my first trip carrying the…
