Five year’s of serving as a Volunteer and Religious Services Coordinator for the Idaho Department of Corrections was coming to an end. A new career in special education was going … Read More

It’s at the end of the map that I find the end of myself. Such are the moments in my life when I truly know where I am in this … Read More

An inmate stepped into my office and quietly said, “So, I hear you’re a bit of an outdoorsman. A hiker?” He had my attention. “Yeah,” I said. “I run The … Read More

I’m really excited about our hike on the Selway River coming up next week. I’ve heard a lot of good things about that area, and it’s somewhere I have not … Read More

Click here to see the Cold Springs Trail Photo Album The Cold Springs Trail is the kind of trail I imagine when I think of hiking through the forest. Dappled … Read More

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