Montana Adventurer

Well, the word from Kootenai Canyon is this — the skeeters are out if it’s cool or shady, the creek is still to high to cross and the climbing, as usual, is fabulous.
Daughter Kate and I got up the canyon on Thursday for some routes. Kate is still developing her trad skills, so we hoped [...]

Creekin’
Article and photo gallery on whitewater creek boating
Waterfalls, tight turns, fast-flowing rivers and boat-sucking currents are all part of the allure in a whitewater discipline called creek boating.
http://gearjunkie.com/whitewater-creek-boating

Somewhere between delusions of employment as a gear-tester for “Rock and Ice” and seriously considering renting a Winnebago for the next trip to the woods, there comes the Family Tent.
I caught the wilderness bug as a boat captain in Glacier National Park. The pay was so poor, most of us couldn’t afford camping gear. So [...]

Remember comedian Bill Cosby’s childhood plot to stash a snowball in the freezer until July? And his mom threw it out before he could throw it?
The folks at Garnet Ghost Town prepared better. They cut mounds of ice from Beavertail Pond last winter in preparation for an ice cream social on June 27.
Garnet Interpretive Days [...]

The last thing any driver wants to see is a deer in the headlights. Too often, it’s the last thing the deer sees. Working out ways for cars and critters to coexist is the subject of a new film showing in Missoula Thursday evening. “Division Street” is an hour-long look at how wildlife corridors make [...]

River levels are dropping around western Montana, but the casual boating season hasn’t arrived yet.
Snags like the Rock Creek whopper at river mile 27 will likely remain a hazard for the rest of the summer. State Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokeswoman Vivica Crowser said on Wednesday that river wardens have checked out the snag, but [...]

Check out Rob Chaney’s video from the Alberton Gorge. It’s pretty self-explanatory once you get there!

Reporter Rob Chaney took an aerial tour of Missoula area rivers recently with Brianna Randall of the Clark Fork Coalition. It’s good stuff about how development and use impacts our rivers, plus it’s always fun to look out of planes! See it here: