This time was different.  Previous years I had settled into a tent near the car at the viewpoint below Richmond Peak, a timbered ridge to the north and east of Seeley Lake, Montana.  Time and again I had enjoyed the awesome view of the mighty wall of mountain ridge that rose up from the canyon […]

Mount Gunnison was calling as we three 13 year old boys laid our plans and set out on our next Colorado back country adventure.  We had studied our Forest Service map and convinced our parents that we knew what we were doing.  It seemed fairly straightforward.  We would follow the Forest Service trail about a […]

The trout literally leaped to snag our hooks as we cast them again and again into the small pools of Trout Creek as it cascaded down through the brush, waterfalling from rock to rock.  No, really, that is one of those rare memories from childhood that stands out as a boggling phenomena, one of few […]