by altandy | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
written by Sarah Kyllo It was never really about summiting a mountain, a 7800 foot pile of rock. It was about a challenge of whether or not I could hike that far and climb that high against the voices telling me there were easier paths to take in life. The idea was...
by altandy | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
written by Michael Gay “The things we see, hear, smell and touch affect us long before we believe anything at all.” – Flannery O’Connor In northern Idaho there is a stretch of dead end road that turns off of Highway 97 and leads to Outlet...
by altandy | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
written by Bryan Schaap I FIRST HIKED INTO THE LAKE as a sixteen year old, full of the boundless energy and exuberance of youth. The abiding silence of the wilderness was broken by the heavy footfall and even heavier laughter of my buddies and I – climbing and...
by altandy | May 11, 2016 | Features
written by Benjamin Cedartree I was raised by streams of water. Towering giants reached to the heavens above me, centuries of song from the earth to the sky. Songs of water, rising softly from every living cell, and falling again, from dense clouds never seeming to...