Although Idaho: A Climbing Guide is focused on Idaho’s mountains, the website is a convenient place to post articles that I have written (or been quoted in) about Idaho and adventures that I have had in other locations. I will add to this collection as time permits.
Will Bagley wrote in his book So Rugged and Mountainous “All peoples have a myth, and as Americans we love our legends but often loathe our history. Many of us prefer to view our past more as a heroic parable than as a complicated and contentious record of the human experience.” These stories are my incomplete, complicated history. Hopefully, more a record of my journeys than an heroic parable.
Montana 1971
Vignettes of the Southern Mountains 1972, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina
The Way West 1972, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana
The Middle of Nowhere, 1972, Idaho
Crater Lake 1973, Oregon
Days in Heaven: Sequoia and Kings Canyon 1974, California
- North Island
- Mount Cook National Park
- Routeburn Track
- Milford Sound Track
- Mount Egmont: New Zealand’s Most Climbed Mountain 1975
Patrolling the Backcountry—Rocky Mountain National Park, 1975 Colorado
A Sierra Fall Backpack, 1975, California
The Talamanca Range of Costa Rica, 1976
Two Sierra Nevada Traverses, 1976, California
Five Days on the Inca Trail, 1977, Peru
Salmon City 1978, Idaho
The Problem with Baker Lake, 1979, Idaho
My Life as a Crew Leader, Idaho Falls, 1979-1981
Dry Creek Memories, Idaho, 1979 to the Present
The Crop Duster Incident, Idaho Falls, 1980
Circling Squaretop Mountain, 1981, Wyoming
A Yellowstone Winter, January 1982
New Fork Lakes / Palmer Lake Loop, Wyoming 1982
Completing the Wyoming Trifecta, 1982
Scrambles in the Lemhi Range, Idaho 1982
Big Peaks and Bad Rock, Idaho 1982
Footloose in the Central Wind River Mountains, 1983, Wyoming
Tales of Two Mountains, Opinion, 1983
The City of Rock —Politics, Climbing, History and Need, 1983, Idaho
The Bighorn Crags, 1984, Idaho
Idaho’s Albion Range, 1984
Fire and Brimstone: The Seven Devils Mountains 1984, Idaho
UI Denali Expedition, 1985, Alaska
In Grizzly Country, 1985, Idaho
Glacier Peak: The Long and Winding Route, 1985, Washington
Mexican Volcanoes, 1985-1986
Lua Pele —Hawaii’s Volcanoes, 1986
Mount Adams, 1986, Washington
The White Cloud Peaks, 1986, Idaho
Mountaineering In Idaho, 1986
UI Denali Expedition, 1987, Alaska
Winter in the Summer in the Wind River Mountains, 1987, Wyoming
A Month Climbing in Bolivia and Peru, 1988
The First Ascent of Cabin Creek Peak, 1988, Idaho
Skiing the Rim Road Around Crater Lake, 1990, Oregon
1 for 2: Jefferson and Saint Helens, 1990, Oregon and Washington
A Sawtooth Traverse 1990, Idaho
A California 14er Extravaganza: Mount Langley, Mount Muir, Mount Whitney and Mount Russell, 1991, California
Jefferies Glacier Expedition, 1992, Alaska
Kings Peak from the East, 1993, Utah
A Walk Around North Palisade, 1993, California
Grand Gulch Backpack, 1994, Utah
Middle Fork Backpack, 1995, Idaho
The First Ascent of the North Face of USGS Peak.1995, Idaho
Peakbagging in Glacier National Park, 1995, Montana
The Ruby Crest Trail, 1996, Nevada
Circling the Shivering Mountains, 1996, Alaska
Wind Rivers, 1997, Wyoming
High Times in Colorado (1997-2010): Chasing the 14ers
A Brief Visit to the Canadian Rockies, 2001
Mulhacén, 2002, Spain
The First Ascent of Triple Peak, 2003, Idaho
Sierra Nevada Day Hiking, 2006, California
Eagle Cap, 2007, Oregon
High Sierra Camps Loop, 2007, California, Yosemite
Sierra Nevada Backpack–New Army Pass to Shepherd Pass, 2008, California
Say It Ain’t So: 2009 Denali Expedition, 2009, Alaska
Line of No Return: Evolution Basin, 2009, California
The First Ascent of JT Peak, 2011, Idaho
High Thunderstorms Anxiety in the Sierra Nevada, 2012
Two for Texas: Spring 2014 Trip
Fall Trip 2014, Nevada, Utah and California
There is Life in Death Valley, 2015, California
Monte Solaro, 2015, Italy
Diamond Ridge Traverse, 2015, Idaho
Fall Trip 2015: Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Arizona
Please Sir … Some More, 2016, California and Nevada
A Nevada November Sojourn, 2016
Spring 2017: Sonic Booms and Peakbagging in the Mountain Kingdom, Nevada
Day Tripping in the Oregon Owyhee Mountains 2017 – 2020
A Cold November Peakbagging in Nevada and Utah, 2017
Nevada: A Very Early Spring Trip, 2018
Nevada Again: Another Box of Chocolates, March 2018
Another November Nevada Adventure, 2018
Kaala—The Top of Oahu, 2019, Hawaii
To the Land of Enchantment and Back, 2019 New Mexico, Colorado
Spring Training, 2020, Nevada
Bell Mountain—a Forty Year Journey 1980 – 2020
The Toughest 11er, 2020
5 Kids on Wild Trails by Margaret Fuller: An Appreciation 2021
Island in the Sky, 2021, Idaho
The High Point of the Wallowas, Oregon 2021
The Grand Slam Peaks, Idaho 2021
Cirque of the Bovines, 2022 Nevada
Morning Walks Up Table Rock, Idaho 2023
Cottonwood Lakes, 2023, Cottonwood Lakes Backpack, California 2023
Nevada’s Granite Range, 2014 – 2023,