Can This Be the End? Story and Photos by Mike Cothern On the way home from a five-day backpacking trip in central Idaho’s Bighorn Crags, I was only a mile from the campground where I had left my
Surprise, Surprise Story and Photos by Brush Bash In the forty years I’ve lived in the Idaho Falls area, I’ve often worked and played in the vicinity of the extinct volcanoes North and South Menan Butte. I’ve driven
Through Unnamed Hills and Outcrops Story and Photos by Troy Tetreault Hundreds of cattle mooed in unison a thousand feet below me. Rounded up by their ranchers, they spread like an alluvial fan across the Garden Creek Gap
Into the Unknown Story and Photos by Mike Cothern The author, a longtime IDAHO magazine contributor, got an idea a while back to hike the entire canyon rim above Salmon Falls Creek, which runs primarily through the high
Up to Table Rock Story and Photos by Tom Lopez Darn, it’s cold,” I blurt but my wife Laurie ignores this statement of the obvious. She’s breaking trail a couple of yards ahead of me up the snow-covered
Which Way to Go? By Alice Schenk Dreams can come with a price, and mine was exacted in the operating room. Last fall, after a season of scaling mountains, I developed a full tear and a partial tear
Hiking the Idaho Centennial Trail in One Season Story and Photos by Collin Ciarlo It took three years to prepare for hiking the approximately one thousand miles of the Idaho Centennial Trail (ICT). Lauren, a great friend of
And a Tale to Tell By David E. Metcalf The line of hikers stopped suddenly and our voices went up in alarm. Was everyone okay? This was a pleasant southwestern Idaho summer morning in 1973 and we teenagers
A Small Hand Proffered By Brittney Eggleston Photos by Karl Eggleston Sun shining, a breeze caressing my neck. Not a cloud in the sky on this July day in 2020, and we were able to get an early
Boilers in the Mountains Story and Photos by Ray Brooks Idaho’s few high-mountain steam boilers left over from mining in the 1800s are interesting artifacts, but these rusty behemoths can present a danger to those who practice the
