Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | August 25, 2011
GALLATIN CANYON — This much is certain: You can count on a sore back, purple fingers and tight hamstrings if you’re out picking during the height of huckleberry season. And if your willpower is prone to wavering, you can add a purple face to that list, too. August is prime time for gathering huckleberries in [...]
Ben Pierce | August 18, 2011
I’m as guilty as anyone, of telling climbing stories that begin with, end on or somehow involve the word, “epic.” Like many other four-letter words, it’s versatile. Depending on the placement or inflection, “epic” describes everything from grandeur and pride to embarrassment and failure. The resulting allusions are oddly appropriate as I discovered after my [...]
Ben Pierce | August 11, 2011
This past weekend, Harlan Kredit celebrated his 40thseason as a summer park ranger in Yellowstone National Park. Kredit and his wife Linda spent their first summer on the shores of Yellowstone Lake in 1971. Together they’ve seen many changes in Yellowstone, and they’ve seen many things stay the same. “If you had asked me 40 [...]
Ben Pierce | August 4, 2011
SPHINX MOUNTAIN – Tuesday morning began beautifully in the Madison Mountains. Clear skies and warming temperatures greeted my hiking companion Emerson Lenon and me as we tightened the laces of our boots at the Bear Creek trailhead east of Cameron. We’d come here to hike to the summit of Sphinx Mountain. We didn’t make it.
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