Jessica Bedtka: Creating Change through Relationships
When I signed up for the Montana Afoot and Afloat course last winter, I wasn’t sure exactly what I was getting myself into, but two months of backpacking and kayaking
Clarissa Sprague: The Weird Farmers
The wind swept in as we opened the van door to rolling hills of Montana farm land. Round bales speckled the landscape, still fresh and intact just after summertime hay
Annie Ireland: Embracing vs Conquering
The wind was blowing, the freezing rain felt like continuous stings against my cheeks, my feet had gone numb over an hour ago. So numb now, that they felt as
Karlyn Roberts: Experiencing a Winter Wonderland–In September
The plan was made. No more than four miles and we would be that much closer to the views from the top of Great House Peak. Today was the day.
WRFI: A Summer of Relearning How to Love Learning by Mik Kaiser
It was early May and it was one of the first warm days of a late Madison spring. I was sitting in my third class of the day, in a
Jesse Stenske: Disturbance is Life
At first glance, these toothpick forests of the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana want to invade me with fear and loneliness and hang me out to dry in the sun under
Diane Klement: Professor Garter Snake and Bitterroot
Silence. Lichen spreads between my fingertips like spider webs as the callousness of rock scratches against my hands. It is the first day of WRFI’s Montana Afoot and Afloat course,
Joe Gallucci: Miniscule and Mighty
With frozen toes and tired eyes I tread up the hill that rises high above our camp at Halfmoon Park in the Scapegoat Wilderness of Montana. My body is in
Emi Okitsu: Irony of Climate Change
After I arrived in Augusta, MT, I received a text message from my brother who lives in Okayama, Japan. During this bike trip from Billings, MT to Glacier National Park,
Chloe Williamson: The Privilege of Choice
Not In My Backyard, not through the oak trees and my childhood playground, not through my favorite fig tree that produces fruit in August, not through the grass that stains