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A Day of Beginnings

Everyone has days in their lives that hold significance such as birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, the passing of loved ones. They are days to reflect on milestones, life changing events and loved ones. For me, one of the biggest is May

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Touch of Glacier Helena

I absolutely love giving my presentation! I get to tell my story while showing video and pictures of my trip. If you followed my blog in 2011, you got the quasi-objective version of the trail. My presentations are more of

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First Trillium of the Year

I went out yesterday to look for Common Loon nests with some fine folks and came across my first trillium of the year. For me, this is one of my happy indicators of Spring which is followed by baby animals,

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The Frustrations of Spring

Glacier National Park is more than Going-to-the-Sun Road, but the progress of the plowing of the road is a good indicator as to how much of the Park is accessible to hiking. At the end of most Aprils, the indicator

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Bluebird day on Camas Road

Got the word a little bit ago that the Camas Road was open to driving and went up with my buddy TJ Fallon*. Camas Road is a nice little paved road that shows off the Lewiston Range up the North

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Touch of Glacier – Spokane

For those of you living in the Spokane Valley, I’ll be doing the presentation of my adventure in 2011 to hike all the trails in Glacier. You’ll get to hear all about the ups and downs that an adventure like

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Jake ‘n Blake 2013 Western Montana Tour

I just came out with my Going-to-the-Sun Road Driving Guide and my good buddy Blake Passmore of Climb Glacier National Park fame has come out with Volume 3 of his Climb Glacier National Park series. His latest book features routes

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Going-to-the-Sun Road Guides are here!!

After months of dreaming the project, driving the road, designing, drawing, planning, tweaking, proofing, writing, proofing and finally writing a check… the Going-to-the-Sun Road Driving Guides are here! If you haven’t ordered yours yet, you can get it at the

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Kidney Stoned in the ER

Went to bed on Monday night feeling fine, then woke up around 12:30 a.m. with an “awesome” pain in my side. I tried to tough it out until the next morning as I don’t like to use the ER unless

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Spring Cleanup Winner #1!

Congratulations to Colette Ottens for being the first winner for my Spring Cleanup Giveaway! She has her choice of a few hydration reservoirs I tested last year. I’ve got more I’ll be giving away soon. All you have to do

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