My Trip To the Bitterroot Wilderness My dad has been going on a week-long, 50-mile hike with his friends each summer since high school, and when I was in sixth…
Category: Voices in the Wilderness
Voices in the Wilderness, begun as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, allows people from many walks of life to tell personal stories about enjoyable —or maybe not-so-enjoyable —adventures and personally important moments in wild country. Pieces are written by people from all around the Scotchmans area. Each story tells of the writer’s special relationship with wild places. The stories are funny, touching, scary, inspiring and all rooted in a personal relationship with a place with no roads.
These essays are published in papers around the region including Montanian, Western News, Sanders County Ledger, Bonner County Daily Bee, and Sandpoint Reader.
Voices in the Wilderness – Stone Koivu
A Most Memorable Wilderness Experience The crisp morning air was heavy with the pine aroma as I entered the backcountry, my boots sinking into the wet earth. The sun was…
Voices in the Wilderness – Joslin Gassmann
Huckleberry Pie I was born on April 22 and to most people that seems irrelevant, but to some it marks a special date for our planet and is called Earth…
Voices in the Wilderness – Rane Stempson
Growing up as the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American War Veteran/OSS-CIA/Civil Engineer father, my early years were quite the adventure, but not the hiking kind. Living in…
Voices in the Wilderness – Sonny Mazzullo
Twelve years leading groups in the woods has taught me not to fall in love with a plan. Wild things tend to happen in wild places. This lesson has been…
Voices in the Wilderness – Andrea Nagel
In Times of Trouble, Turn to Nature When life feels overwhelming, or I find myself weighed down by uncertainty, I turn to the mountains, rivers, and forests of northern Idaho.…
Voices in the Wilderness – Sami Wilfong
As I started my second semester of my junior year at Boise State University, the only thing on my mind was the fact that our first week of classes was…
Voices in the Wilderness – Tim Kerrigan
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in the Pacific Northwest, which was a paradise for a high-energy kid like myself. Many days were spent exploring the surrounding woods,…
