Jean Carroll’s Autobiography, I Never Felt Poor Except In Town – Selway Saga 1932 – 1948 is a worthy read. Carroll’s story begins as 2 year-old moving with her family into the heart of one of America’s recently designated Primitive Areas by mule to start life as Backcountry Outfitters in 1932. Their home and ranch Read More…
Backcountry Off Trail
What’s on Your Walk?
When you go out for a walk, hike, run, or some similar type of activity are you focused entirely on the exercise and its successful completion? Or do you take in what is around you as much as the exercise? My behavior is more in line with the later – even during my days of Read More…
The Range of the Experience
Today the temperature reached a high of 90.9 degrees fahrenheit at our cabin in Stanley, Idaho. That is fairly warm. The temperature when Linda, I, and the Border Collies left the cabin for our 6 mile hike at 7AM was 35.1 degrees fahrenheit. Today was a Double-Dandy. My buddy Doug Proctor met me upon on Read More…