Aspens are turning gold and umber, nights are longer, and days feel crisper. Summer is overbut dont put away your tent and sleeping bag just yet. The warm days and cool nights of autumn are just right for a camping trip. When youre planning your fall outing, you have to think about who else is …
After more than an hour of skiing in the shaded, narrow Spring Creek Canyon, I slid into a patch of sunlight. The snow sparkled with promise of longer days, light reflecting off every facet of every crystal. My toes were still frozen and the sun on my boots didnt help warm them. My hair iced …
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Not a lot of kids can say they outgrew their climbing harness, mountain bike, hiking boots and waders all in the same year. The outdoors are beckoning, and Bozeman kids are flying down the mountain at Bridger Bowl, Big Sky, and Moonlight. They are hiking up Drinking Horse Mountain, playing in Bozeman Creek, passing you …
Getting cabin fever, yet? Check out some of these Bozeman-based companies for trips around the world. Backpacking through Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica last April, Mariann Van Den Elzen ran into three folks from the Bozeman/Big Sky area. The following week, in Puerto Viejo, two Missoulians on bikes stopped her to ask, Hey! Do …
Some people are really into canoeing. If youre one of them, or wish you were, pick up the 20th-anniversary edition of . Jacobson has gathered his friends together to produce a very thorough guide to canoeing northern rivers. This hefty tome to wilderness canoeing starts with how to research a river and ends with a …
There is no need to hike naked to a visitor center after your boat is capsized and pinned to a rock midriver. Your friends dont have to almost die from hypothermia crossing a lake because you chose to save the gear first. These things happened to Alan Kesselheim and you can learn from his mistakes …
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