Originally published by Headwall – December 2015 Missoula is a Wilderness town. Travel south down Highway 93 and the sprawling Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness stretches to the west. Head north and the Scapegoat, Bob Marshall, Great Bear, Cabinet Mountains, and Mission Mountains Wilderness Areas offer a lifetime of solitude and escape. The Anaconda-Pintler and Welcome Creek Wilderness … Continue reading Winter Wilderness
I raced this weekend. Like in a formal, sign up, pay money race. I think it was the first time in close to two decades I participated in an organized race. Racing’s just not my thing: I’m not very competitive, I shy away from organized events, and I’m cheap. Races are, of course, competitions, they … Continue reading Rivers and Alarms
Originally Published by Outside Bozeman - June 2015 Watch out for rattlesnakes,” a middle-aged blonde warns as we strap our dry bags onto our paddleboards at the Silver Star boat launch, 11 miles north of Twin Bridges. “They’re on land and in the river.” Despite my deep-seated fear of serpents, the thought of a swimming … Continue reading The Forgotten Fork: Two Days on the Jefferson
I am an adulterer. A cheat. A philanderer. I have abandoned my first true love for the sweet whispers of the new. I was Ocean's boy. The cold, gray tides of the Atlantic were as known to me as the flaws of my face and my character. Our union was an arranged marriage, the convenience … Continue reading The Smith
So, today was beautiful. Absolutely spectacular. It was sunny, 55 degrees, truly wonderful. Everything was sweet and pure and right. Except it's not even March. It's still February. I guess no one told the thermometer. Yesterday, I skied. Not epic powdery snow, but pretty damn good snow considering we're at 55% of our usual snowpack … Continue reading That kind of a winter
The North Fork of the Flathead River has been a focus of both my advocacy and my writing for the past several years. Yesterday, the Lt. Governor of British Columbia said that the area would be off limits to mining, oil, gas, or coal bed methane development. This is pretty fantastic news and has been … Continue reading Flathead Wild
Greg M. Peters 