Lesson Learned By Gavin Stellmon Photos by Tanner Stellmon The trailhead to Curtis Lake was marked by two wooden planks that faced the sky. Dad took the lead, followed by Everett, me, and James. It was the first
In Perspective, Outdoors Story and Photos by Pam Streeby Astley The sun came up as we crossed the Perrine Bridge. It would be a beautiful but chilly fall day as my friend Racheal and I headed from Twin
In Search of the Wrecked WWII Bomber Story and Photos by Makena Klinge We used to play pretend in a built-from-scratch tree house in the forest behind the cabin in McCall where I grew up. My sisters and
Lakes on a Trail Story and Photos by Alice Schenk I gazed into the fifth lake and wondered what in the world I was thinking. It was murky and unappealing, but I was determined. I stepped into it,
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
