When I was a child, I wasn’t afraid of the dark. I grew up in the suburbs of southwestern Washington, surrounded by streetlights and mini-marts. The world of my youth was one where we imagined ourselves in the mountains as we chopped at blackberry bushes with sticks, but were always …
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For several months I’ve been looking at these rock outcroppings in the distance, wondering if I might discover some new, undeveloped, rock worthy of establishing some climbing routes.
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No matter how long it’s been since I’ve been in my kayak, or how far life has drawn me away from the river, when winter begins to melt out of the mountains, I am lured back.
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I was visiting with Grandma Margaret and watching the chickadees land on her porch when I suddenly had the idea to ask her about the wooden mining claim post I had recently found while exploring the edges of Q’emiln Park.
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I’ve often wondered whether a person named Jerry Johnson ever existed. Was he the man who first discovered the pools of hot water hidden along a creek just up from the Lochsa River? I’ve asked Forest Service rangers, and researched it on the internet. No one knows. But in my …
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