Our Annual “Great Adventure” Story and Photos by Alice Schenk On May 28, 2009, my husband Wayne and I packed a picnic lunch and hiked into Lake Cleveland before the road opened. Cleveland is an alpine lake in Cassia
A Quest to Reach the Tallest Peak in Each Idaho County Story and Photos by Alice Schenk Before the wind came whistling through the day and winter blanketed the landscape, I reached my high point number twelve. My
Over Our Heads in Every Way By James J. Pizzadili Back in the early 1970s whitewater river travel in Idaho was more motorized than today. Jet boats prowled up and down the Main Salmon River and the Snake
And at 120 m.p.h. By Max Jenkins Last year on the afternoon of Sunday, June 24, my wife Jean and I drove to the Star Airport to skydive. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind. People
And Flood on the Snake By Ray Brooks After a winter of drought, the Salmon River was running unusually low in late June 1994. My wife Dorita and I had discussed doing a multi-day Fourth of July whitewater
A Trek to Idaho’s Farthest Point from Civilization By Ryan Means Conservation ecologist Ryan Means and wife Rebecca P.M. Means, a wildlife ecologist, are the forces behind Project Remote, which uses geographic information systems (GIS) to precisely calculate
Revivified in Island Park Story and Photos by Alice Schenk The sparkle of possibility shone upon the day as Wayne and I headed out on our rented snowmobile, which I had nicknamed Betsy. We were at Island Park
And the Mountains Oblige By Alice Schenk We pull into the trailhead at dusk, planning to set up camp for a 5 a.m. start on a climb up Donaldson Peak (the eighth-highest in Idaho at 12,023 feet) and
Mountain, Waterfall, Beach By Jason S. Wilmoth When I first moved to northern Idaho in 1999, I was twenty and green. I had grown up in a family that absolutely did not embrace nature, which meant I learned
Rafting and Climbing in the Salmon River Canyon By Ray Brooks Long ago, I heard there were two types of whitewater rafters: those who have flipped their raft, and those who are going to flip their raft. Despite
