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Kootenai Roars

The creeks up and down the Bitterroot Valley are howling. We were up Kootenai Creek on Memorial Day for an afternoon climbing trip, and were just awed by the volume of white froth coursing down from the mountains.
You get the picture.
We had an excellent but brief day up at the Second Buttress. Thunderstorms swept in [...]

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Big game license deadline looms

Big game season is at least three months away, but hunters who want special tags have just seven days to get their requests in.
Special license drawings for deer, elk and other game species have to be postmarked by June 1 to make the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks drawings.
The process can be as nerve-wracking as [...]

It’s Climbing Time!

The snow is out of all the lowland climbing areas here in western Montana. So that means it’s game on, even up Blodgett Canyon, where the big walls no longer have water seeping down the big faces.
My daughters and I have been out the past two weekends, at Rattler Gulch out by Drummond and to [...]