IN THIS ISSUE! Blackfoot, Boise, Cataldo, Deary, Garden City, Highway 55, Idaho Falls, Moscow, Nampa, Perrine Bridge, Pocatello, Riggins, Salmon River Mountains This content is available for purchase. Please select from available options. Purchase Only
Calendar of events throughout the state in April 2016. Continue reading
In March 2005, I retired from a twenty-three-year career as a firefighter in southern California and then in 2013, I relocated to McCall. Not long after that, I was sitting around the wood-burning stove in my friend Larry Morton’s woodshop in Cascade when the topic turned to climbing. Continue reading
It was 1971, and the brilliance of the late-May sky shone through the model airplane’s translucent white wings as it glided high overhead in wide, majestic circles. “Go, Falcon!” I shouted to the glider and to my audience, the empty hills and canyons of Hulls Gulch overlooking the Boise Valley. Continue reading
The first time was back in the early 1980s, when I was driving home to Moscow with my buddy Kevin after a weekend climbing trip amid poison ivy-infested crags along the Salmon River above Riggins. Continue reading
Twenty years ago, Mother Nature unleashed one natural disaster after the next, all over Idaho. Continue reading
It is winter and we are traveling, once again, from McCall to Boise for my piano lesson. The canyon road is recently plowed and only a few inches of snow cover the pavement. Snow is piled high on the mountain’s side of the narrow road. Continue reading
Coralie’s Hot Ham Sandwiches and Jared’s “Tarry” Cake. Continue reading
I don’t know how many times I’ve fallen. Two? Twenty? But this time I’m lying face down in Victor Creek. Groping for the far bank, I stumble to my feet and find myself smiling, strangely amused at my own plight. This is what I signed up for, the adventure . . . living life. Continue reading
I just want to be on the water,” has become what my husband Smiley and I refer to as Conversation #51. Continue reading
