On the Road to All Things Good Story and Photos by Amy Story At a Toastmaster’s meeting in Nampa back in 2012, I met Mary Novotny, a delightful speaker who took an interest in me.“Let’s sit in the
From a Time of Wonder By Connie J. Thompson With our picnic in tow, my husband Kurt and I climb out of the truck to search out the old campground. As we walk to the bank of the
On a Compass Course By David E. Metcalf They were kids, they didn’t know better. Putting two kangaroo rats in a box together—what could go wrong? Well, the rats would explain. For several years in the 1990s, several
At the Edge of Wilderness Story and Photos by Kaidi Stroud Amid a string of one-hundred-degree days and smoke-filled air, we invite my sister and her family to Grandjean to spend a couple of nights in the cabins
No Escape from the Bloodlust Story and Photos by Ray Brooks My most traumatic horsefly experience came at the tender age of twenty-two, as I maneuvered a raft through a small but very rocky rapid on the Middle
In Deep Forest at Age Seven By Charles Willingham After setting up the tent at Aldous Lake, I packed our food into a nylon bag and took it about forty yards away to hang it fifteen feet high
Under the Sun and Stars Story and Photos by Linda Lantzy In less than thirty-six hours I’ll be floating the mighty Salmon “River of No Return.” Contained completely within Idaho, this 425-mile-long river begins as a trickle in
So Near, So Far to the Lakes Story and Photos by Elise Barker It’s just a couple miles to the Bench Lakes from here,” a young man who worked at the Redfish Lake dock said as he pointed
Into the Backcountry By Chyrle Bonk Not on my new sleeping bag!” I exclaimed, as my husband Scott helped to change our son’s diaper in our tent in Dworshak State Park in the middle of the night. Anyone
A Mind-Body Experience By Nancy Owens Barnes For weeks, the Sawtooth & White Cloud Mountains Trail Map lay spread across my husband’s desk. He studied it hours at a time, following trails with his finger, supplementing the map
