Sign up to lead a winter hike! Allrighty, hikers. Just a few days left to get your winter Scotchmans hike into the January/February issue of Peak Experience. We have some…
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Give Thanks for the Wild
On Thanksgiving Day many of us will take a few moments to consider our blessings and give thanks for those things which bring us abundance and pleasure, which uplift us…
Sip and Shop
The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness invites you to toast the holidays with us! On the Monday after Thanksgiving, when the family has gone home and the holiday season is…
Winter Film Fun, then Winter 101
Are you ready for winter? Well, ready or not, the "bleak season" just fell into Idaho out of the north, pushed by a familiar presence — the Arctic Express —…
The tread is to tread upon — stay on it.
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…
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…
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…
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…
