It's not in the Scotchmans, but you can see the proposed wilderness from there —Scotchman itself, and Clayton and Mikes and Star Peak. As you near the top of the Mickinnick, a bit more of the...
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Wilderness and climate change
Change.
Now, that's a scary word, particularly when the onus to do so is on us, personally. Or when we are facing some that is inevitable.
The discussion about climate change, also...
Remember: “a fed goat could be a dead goat.”
In the recent news is a story about a man who died after being gored by a mountain goat in the Olympic National Park in Washington. This tragedy emphasizes something Friends of Scotchman Peaks...
Further confessions for a former couch potato: Wild, Wild Washington, D.C.
On Saturday last, I took a walk into “our” wilderness, clambered into the upper reaches of the East Fork of Blue Creek, looking to sew together some unconnected dots. I found what I was...
Plenty of ways to celebrate National Public Lands Day with FSPW
"This land is your land . . . "
As September draws to a (currently) beautiful end, FSWP takes note of National Public Lands Day. Saturday, September 25 is a nation-wide celebration of...
Passages: Walkin’ Jim Stoltz has left the planet.
Passages. He made so many. 27,000 miles and still counting, the last time I talked to him at Wild Idaho in Redfish Lake this past May. He came and sang his songs, howled his howls and treated us...
Further confessions of a former couch potato: To the top of Sawtooth . . . again.
Three of us — and my new dog, Laddie — stood at the top of Sawtooth in the midst of the proposed wilderness last Saturday (August 28th), an internationally flavored group if there ever was...
Scotchman (singular) Peak is in the Scotchman Peaks (plural)
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.")...