A Wealth of Stories Story and Photo by Christina Campbell One day during the Christmas season, I received a phone call from my eighty-three-year-old friend Clint Bays. His voice was strained, and there was an unusual urgency in
The Not in Wilderness Coalition By Steve Zettel Photos Courtesy Idaho Wilderness Company About a decade ago, a good friend of mine joined our outfitting company on a Middle Fork of the Salmon River float trip with his
The Trouble with Tech Talk By Jay W. Larsen Some years back I mentioned the term “cloud technology” to an Idaho farmer who owned more than ten thousand acres. Only around the turn of the 21st Century did
Expect the Unexpected Story and Photos by Emily Wegener In 2021, we packed up our life of forty years and moved from Orange County, California to Idaho, where we knew absolutely no one. We had no idea what
The winners of the 2025 IDAHO magazine Fiction Contest, sponsored by Rediscovered Books, have been selected. Here they are: First Place—“Jack’s Journals,” by S.G. Copeland of Wallace Second Place—“Sariah and the Desert Rose,” by Mark Ready of Clarkston,
By Les Tanner Double-checking with event coordinators about the following locations, dates, and times is recommended. Northern Idaho 3 Idaho & Lewis County Treasure Hunt: Kamiah 3 Single Moms Celebration: Kootenai County Fairgrounds, Coeur d’Alene 3-31 Kootenai County
A Floatplane Challenge By Matthew Nelson In July 2004, I went to Idaho to complete my rating as a floatplane pilot that I had started in Alaska in 2002. It doesn’t take most pilots thirty-eight hours in eleven
Music to Your Ears By Bob Johnson When we crossed the Washington border on the final leg of our move to northern Idaho last summer, one of the first places on my “To Visit” list was a record
A Rude Spire in the Sticks By Rick Just Last December, Rick penned an item in his “Speaking of Idaho” history blog that caught our attention. You’ll find out why at the end of his piece, an edited
Three Nights on a Mountaintop By Thomas Moore Two scathing bolts of lightning tore through the air above the trail to Bonneville Peak. The rain transformed itself into a blistering hail. Spheres of ice as large as ping
