A Hike to Geiger Lakes: The Eye-opening Experience for a Young Boy When I was nine years old, my family moved from Minnesota back to Montana. It was late in…
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.
Snow Cave: A winter adventure
By Christine Tefta, Priest River High School Class of 2019 Not long ago, in the early days of March, I set off near Silver Mountain on a backpacking exhibition. With…
Changing your outlook changes everything.
By Elloria Lambert, Clark Fork High School Class of 2019 My most memorable outdoor experience took place my sophomore year of high school with my school’s outdoor experiential learning program.…
Family fun in wilderness
Above: Aaron Johnson in one of the less miserable moments of the 2016 Extreme Plein Air Expedition (Photo by Joe Foster, dappstudios.com) By Aaron Johnson The company loves misery —…
The Shortest Hunt
"As long as we had water nearby and a semi-flat site to pitch a small shelter we would be fine. " By Jared Lampton Despite being a lifelong hunter and…
3 a.m. and wide awake in the wilderness
By Ed Robinson It's 3:00 am and I am suddenly awake. So . . . the question is: a.) Did something wake me?; or b.) Did the memory of the…
In the Sun
by Kaeli Wells I hiked down off the mountain at 3:44 in the morning. It was the day after the summer solstice and there was already a thin line of…
Flip-flops and Mountain Goats
Yeo Won Yarnell's essay was the best of the 2019 FSPW Scholarship Competition. I was raised in a household that highly values doing outdoor activities like hiking, biking and skiing. …
