I’ve been prepping for the big one.
The joys of birding come in many forms. I mostly write about the birds themselves, but let me write today about the people who watch birds. In…
Yeah, so about my UTI. That has turned out to be more of an adventure than I anticipated. It included a long day in the emergency room, a tota…
I was looking through my photos from last week’s Wind River Range backpacking trip and, though they were wonderful scenes of high alpine beaut…
The North Fork of the St. Joe River is the least prominent of North Idaho’s north forks. Anglers are more inclined to rave about the direction…
UTI. Say that to a woman and you may get an earful about pain and misery. Mention UTI to a man and he will likely be searching his brain for w…
Getting ready for your next trip is half the fun — or at least the start of it.
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I’ve borrowed the title of this column from Geoffrey E. Hill, who wrote the book “Bird Coloration” (2010). In the chapter with this title, he …
The hail pounding on the roof of our cabin last week sounded like a jet engine. The pea-sized pellets were slicing through the sky at an aston…
One person in our group of six had never been to Utah’s Maple Canyon near the tiny town of Fountain Green north of Manti, Utah.
SANDPOINT — Paddlers who like to explore the Pack River delta are having an easier time getting on the water this summer.
I tugged hard on the huge musk thistle with gloved hands, but it wouldn’t budge. I stood and removed the foot-long blade I save for just such …
Last week, my family gathered in a field next to a tall bluff on Washington’s Puget Sound off Whidbey Island to watch the sunset. It was then …
Those of us living in southern Idaho have become used to late summers and early falls bathed in the orange light of wildfire smoke. As July un…
The broad-tailed hummingbird was feeding noisily at the feeder when a bolt of copper shot from the sky right toward it. Flashes of red, green …
So last week I was asked to present some wilderness survival ideas to a group of young women at a girls camp.
I recently gave a presentation to a small group of campers at Henrys Lake State Park in Island Park. It was a challenge because the “amphithea…
A recent trip to the grocery store to buy a week’s worth of food for a summer youth camp for boys got me thinking about food. It’s not hard fo…
For decades, Native Americans were not a part of the broader story of Yellowstone National Park, even though they have deep historical connect…
Late one evening last week while returning from a social function, we decided on a whim to take a shortened version of our favorite wildlife d…
It was one of those things that reminds me of how much mental effort can affect physical activities.
The streak began on the Fourth of July somewhere west of Divide, Montana, on the Big Hole River. It continued on a slough fed by the Beaverhea…
My first experience with a crystal reads like a gangster movie. At 19, I was not contemplating marriage, but I realized that it was a possibil…
The action was hot. I was casting out a new, super shiny spinner in a high mountain lake and catching trout about every three casts, strikes o…
If mankind had to choose between losing diamond and losing quartz as a mineral on this planet, choosing to keep quartz around would be the pru…
It was turning out to be a nearly perfect day. Not too much wind, good temperatures, and light traffic. Nearly perfect … until it wasn’t. Then…
Neither Greek nor Shakespearean tragedies, or even violent Mafioso movies, can rival some of the scenarios wolf 907F has faced while living in…
As I turned yet another shovelful of dirt, I thought about a comment made long ago by the millionaire, Andrew Carnegie: “Men are developed the…
