07 Mar 2013
Posted by Lacey Middlestead 
The air inside the rink was cold enough to momentarily freeze each anxious breath in a cloud before my face. Through opaque glass I watched players whiz back and forth across the ice. Skate blades scraped as players frantically dashed after the little black puck that ricocheted off the boards. Then,...
Read more → 07 Feb 2013
Posted by Shane Castle 
It’s ten below zero but the air is so dry hardly any frost formed overnight. The sun is barely beginning to rise, bleeding out in a thin band of vivid pink light that slowly defines the contours of the snow-covered eastern hills. It is Sunday and many are still in bed, dreaming lesser colors. But Patrick...
Read more → 02 Jan 2013
Posted by Paul Kusnierz 
Where I grew up there are no longer mountain lions, at least not officially. Occasionally someone claims they see one cross the road at night or finds a large cat track, but these observations are never substantiated. Pinned on the bulletin board of our town office there was a newspaper clipping and photo...
Read more → 06 Dec 2012
Posted by Ryan Schmalz 
For almost a year, I have started each morning the same way: I grab a cup of coffee and check the fly fishing report for the area. The blog I look at features pictures, videos and detailed descriptions of how to catch fish on the Missouri River below Holter Dam. These pictures and videos have created...
Read more → 01 Nov 2012
Posted by Paul Sundblad 
The plan is to take a nine-day trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. I’ll use trails to access Spotted Bear Pass and then travel off-trail via the Continental Divide, until striking trail again for the return. It’s an ambitious route, but I know it’s been done before. Day 1 This should be pretty...
Read more → 06 Sep 2012
Posted by Lacey Middlestead 
The tires on my Trek cross-training bike hit the pavement at 5:20 a.m. on Friday, August 10. Memory and the scattered glow from a few street lamps were my only guides. My plan was to ride from Helena to Lincoln and back over the course of two days for a grand total of 14 hours and 137 miles—an...
Read more → 05 Jul 2012
Posted by Shane Castle 
My friend Conrad Evarts, the guy showing off in all these pictures, was the one with the guidebook, so I believed him when he said kayaking this stretch of the Big Blackfoot River should take about three hours. It took six. Also, he’s been kayaking a lot longer than me—I just started last summer—so...
Read more → 05 Apr 2012
Posted by Mark Schoenfeld 
I’ve started to commute more regularly on my bicycle. I’m not trying to save any trees or reduce my carbon footprint. My motives are purely selfish. My truck goes through gas like water going down the drain. Filling that thing up is a serious pain in the backside, at least in the back pocket...
Read more → 01 Mar 2012
Posted by Jesse Lee Varnado 
It was February 2010, and I was in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, when I spotted a large mountain goat and quietly observed him for 10 minutes before he noticed me standing on “his” ledge. Upon seeing the intruder, he deftly moved into a position where he could better see through...
Read more → 02 Feb 2012
Posted by Laura Cunningham 
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