Our Pete Ott Lake Adventure
The easiest way to access the Clearwater National Forest is along its rivers, but climbing a trail up and out of the river bed is grueling work. I’d heard from … Read More
The easiest way to access the Clearwater National Forest is along its rivers, but climbing a trail up and out of the river bed is grueling work. I’d heard from … 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
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
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 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