Lakeshore Trail, Priest Lake, Idaho
Lakeshore Trail is in Appendix A of 100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: From Beaver Creek Campground at the northwest end of Priest Lake, Trail 294 heads south along the lake, with bridge crossings over five creeks, to Granite Creek in Reeder Bay. Hikers could carry packs and camp at several beaches off this trail. […]
Fault Lake, Sandpoint, Idaho
Less than two hours from Coeur d’Alene is one of my favorite hikes. Okay, I usually say they’re all my favorite hikes. However, facing mortality has me asking a lot of questions. And trying to find the answers. One of my staples while torturing my friends is to ask what their final meal would be. […]
Lookout Mountain, Coolin, Idaho
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle Call me beasty. It was the first summer of Covid-19 and quarantines rearranging the world and what we thought of it and forcing most of us to decide what kind of people we were. It was also my first full year of […]
Upper Priest Lake – Trapper Creek, Priest River, Idaho
North Idaho Bushwhacking Backcrappers (the hiker trash formerly known as the North Idaho Backpacking Babes). The Trapper Creek Debacle. Day 1: Do not find the trail, so bushwhack up and down and around an entire mountain in the pouring rain. Sacrifices were made: we lost blood, a can of bear spray, and a cell phone […]
Leigh Lake, Libby, Montana
If a 1,200’ elevation gain in less than 1.5 miles sounds like a good time, I’ve got you. Leigh Lake Trail is a remote trail near Libby, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest and Cabinet Mountains Wilderness that takes you on a swift climb up the mountains and along the Leigh Creek Waterfall. Although major […]
Harrison Lake, Boundary County, Idaho
I’m not rich, and I don’t always say the right things, but I can show you how to enjoy hard work and take you to beautiful places. I met Barbarian Scientist in early 2019. We decided to be serious about one another, but having both had marriages and divorces in our past, a commitment required […]
Badger Mountain and other hikes near Richland, Washington
Plan A: Backpack Weneha River Trail with Trailkat, near Enterprise, Oregon, with Washington Trails Association, and complete four trail work days. Then, I got sick – because you cannot have cancer and freely expose yourself to others at an epic getaway with your friends without consequences. Plan B: Camp near the river trail and day […]
Palouse to Cascades Trail, Iron Horse State Park, Washington
At Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, we believe that every person—regardless of race, gender, geography, income, age, ability, sexual orientation or expression, or other minority status—deserves access to free, accessible and safe places where they can walk, bike and be active. We believe trails have the power to transform communities and create joyful, vibrant public spaces that are […]
Fishtrap Recreation Area, Sprague, Washington
Fishtrap Recreation Area is 9,000 acres of BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land approximately 30 miles west of Spokane, Washington, near Sprague, Washington. It is home to two lakes (Hog Canyon Lake and Fishtrap Lake), the historic Folsom Farm Recreation Site, multiple habitats (forest, shrub-steppe, grasslands, wetlands), and channeled scablands. There are endless miles of […]
Upper Ford Ranger Station Cabin, Kootenai National Forest, Yaak, Montana
We had two Honda Pilots packed full of gear for the wilderness, enough food for an army, and the fears, regrets, worries, love, and hope of five women (TrailKat, J-Go, Princess Hannibal, and My Therapist) needing a getaway from the routine of a long winter to celebrate Global Sisterhood Day and to ring in the […]