In the Kenai Peninsula the rivers run high, swift and oh so cold in June. They are also brimming with Sockeye and King Salmon and the number of drift boats…
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: Rachel Torgeson
When I was younger, my family would often go on camping trips, day hikes, road trips. There was a large priority placed on making sure we got to get outside…
Voices in the Wilderness: A Day Up Ross Creek
These “journal entries” were written in situ by the hikers that participated in the Ross Creek Cedars Writing Workshop, hosted this July by the Friends. Through a series of prompts,…
Voices in the Wilderness: Taylor Staley
My name is Taylor Staley and I have grown up in the wilderness my entire life. I began experiencing the outdoors at a very young age and it changed me…
Voices in the Wilderness: Caiya Yanick
Caiya Yanick is a graduating Senior at Clark Fork High School. She submitted this essay for FSPW’s high school scholarship contest.
Voices in the Wilderness: Toby Walrath
Keeping a canoe moving smoothly on a calm morning requires nothing more than the person in front pulling in unison with the person in the back; unless the person in…
Voices in the Wilderness: The Toddler Trek
On a chilly fall day, after a wonderful Storytime hosted by the Troy library, a group of parents invited my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and me on a trip to Ross Creek…
Voices in the Wilderness: David Rennke
With all the polarization and strife in the world, it's always interesting to me how different paths can lead us to the same destination. Although I now live in the…
