Montana’s Mission Mountains – a phenomena of stunning proportions and striking beauty.  I marveled as I waded back between those magnificent peaks.  I was following the trail around McDonald Lake and back up Post Creek, off in search of Moon Lake.  I had no illusions about the meaning of the designation stamped on the map […]

Don’t get me wrong – I’m as cranked for a boat ride on Flathead Lake of Montana as the next guy.  There’s just nothing quite as relaxing, mellow and laid back as piling onto a party barge pontoon boat and setting out to cruise the lake, especially if there are enough brews and some good […]

Welcome Creek Wilderness – our spring-time challenge in a strange and wonderful little corner of the Montana back country world, just off the blue ribbon trout stream, Rock Creek.  We should have thought it through a little more, but just needed to get out and do a nearby trail.  So Evie and I threw our […]

The third time is usually a charm.  So this third attempt to reach that jewel at the end of the trail just had to pan out.  The Sweeney Peak Trail in the Montana Bitterroot Range heads for the sky high above Florence, Montana along the ridges below Sweeney Peak   The lake – that sparkling blue […]

In the past, most people have looked to the government to address various environmental issues. However, with the complexity and magnitude of these issues increasing exponentially, a different approach is needed. The ‘Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers!’ campaign has become a unifying communications vehicle to address the growing aquatic invasive species issue and it has attracted the […]