The Clearwater Trekkers have been on both the Westridge Trail and Merry’s Bay Trail before, so it seemed a fitting way to open the 2017 hiking season by doing them … Read More

The Downriver Trail provides an impressive view of the Lochsa River and surrounding mountain ridges, which is nice since we were looking at that view for five hours while we … Read More

  Morning mist on the water has always been a favorite of mine, and this morning light on the Clearwater River as I drove to work yesterday was simply too … Read More

It’s one of those areas on the map that you start to think you know because you drive by it at 65 mph every day on your way to somewhere … Read More

The Mallard Larkins Roadless Area consists of 260,000 acres between the St. Joe River in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest and the Clearwater and North Fork Rivers in the Clearwater … Read More

It’s the first question we all ask. And until we have finally found our tried and true gear list, we’ll ask it again before every trip. Some gearheads are still … Read More

It appears that wanderlust is catching. On Monday, October 27th, The Clearwater Trekkers set out on their first group hike! A few weeks back a co-worker approached me about starting … Read More

This article tells the story of my second training hike in preparation for my pilgrimage along El Camino de Santiago in Spain.   Our second training hike took us out … Read More

Sassy and I did our first training hike along the Big Eddy trail on the Dworshak Reservior in Orofino, Idaho. Poor Sassy doesn’t know that she’s not going to Spain with me!… Read More