I am lucky enough to live in the foothills of the beautiful Bitterroot Mountains. It’s a privileged position–and like most privileges, it comes with responsibilities. I firmly believe one of those responsibilities is to make our property as ‘firewise’ as possible. I use the term ‘firewise’ because there is no way to make a forested property…
Backpacking in the Bitterroot Mountains
This last weekend, I had the wonderful, but exhausting opportunity to work with the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation right in my backyard. Blodgett Canyon is one of the most popular and beautiful canyons in the Bitterroots–Matt and I hike it twice a year at least. It’s a great place to take visitors, with dramatic canyon…
Lolo Peak Trail
We hiked up the Lolo Peak Trail recently. We’d intended to go at least to Carlton Lake, but we didn’t quite make it. Why? Well… It was really hot. Like Arizona hot. Both of us were going through water like crazy. Then, it turns out the mileage in our trail book is waaay off. Then,…
Busy, busy, busy
It’s been a busy month. In May, we did a big (for Montana) project with Team Rubicon. Partnering with the Five Valleys Land Trust, we held a Sawyer 1 class and cleared downed trees and dangerous standing timber from a small section of FVLT property. The property was opening to the public in June, so…
First blog post
Finally!