Tips For Skiing With Kids In Montana
Meet the Jennings Family: Matt and Kate started skiing with Josie when she was just a baby. Check out their expert tips for how to successfully get tots down slopes!
Tag: Montana
‘Scanoodling’ Is Our New Favorite Water Activity
A motorized sailing canoe is perfect for playing around on Montana’s lakes and rivers with the whole family.
Do you know where marrying a local is forbidden?
A spring roundup of stories and adventures, including a BBC Travel tale about the oddest island in the Pacific.
How to Stare Down a Trout
Snorkeling brings a new intimacy to my relationship with rivers and creeks that running rapids or matching the hatch never could. Here’s a little ditty on how and why you should snorkel Montana’s rivers.
Birding, Baby: The New Extreme Sport
I bet you never thought birding was hard-core. I didn’t really, either. But then we added a baby to the mix, and Montana decided to sprinkle in some of its famous fickle weather to make our bird-watching missions more extreme.
Belly Love – Photo Montage of the Baby Bump by a Creek
Uncertain abundance. The phrase kept repeating itself in the cobwebs between sleep and wake last night. It captures our summer so aptly: ripe and potent, tenuous and vague. Sands shifting beneath our feet. Waves of love lapping at our toes. Uncertain abundance. This last month of pregnancy is ringed with the […]
Beauty Has a Bite – Walking Into Nettles
Sometimes you walk through the wildflowers and straight into stinging nettles. I did it this weekend. I never looked down at the path below, focusing instead on the creek ahead. My inner thighs tingled for hours, pinpricks reminding me that beauty has a bite. Rob tells me that maybe I […]
We bought a house! (Anyone have a car?)
Some people might call us hasty. Others might say impetuous. We like to call ourselves decisive. Rob and I put an offer on a house exactly one week after touching down in Missoula, Montana. If all goes according to plan, we’ll move in to the new digs on May 8th, […]
First Descents
Last year, I soared off Hogback Mountain over Rock Creek, a blue-ribbon trout stream in Montana. This article about the first paragliding flight off the mountain appeared in the October 2013 issue of Hang Gliding & Paragliding Magazine. Click on the photo below to zoom in and read on.
The Ninemile Vortex
We got this awesome email from Paul Parsons here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Paul replaced Rob at Trout Unlimited, and sent this great update on Rob’s old stomping grounds fixing streams in the Ninemile Valley just west of Missoula in Montana. We appreciate hearing the news, and […]
Finding Peace in La Paz
We just got back from a lovely meal with fellow Montanans who live here in La Paz. (I know: our recent posts make it like Montanans are rapidly colonizing Baja California). Josh Schroeder and his wife, Nieves, welcomed us into their home., and made us prawns, pasta and plenty of […]
Book Release! (Want a free copy?)
Some of you probably remember when I started writing a kids’ book during grad school. Maybe you even heard the reading I gave at a local Missoula bookstore almost a decade ago. After I finished the novel, I shelved it for quite some time. Then, in the midst of moving […]