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When We Became “Welcome to Bears Ears”: A Metamorphosis

Alex Feb 16, 2018 Americans, Bears Ears National Monument, Environmental, First Peoples, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Holiday, Human Rights, Inter-Tribal Coalition, Memorial Day, Outdoor Recreation, Political Border, Politics, Road Signs, Utah, Wilderness

One morning, Eric and I woke in the desert from uneasy politics and found we had turned into a large “Welcome to Bears Ears” sign. For two days, some people

Centennial Mountains from highest peak Mount Jefferson

The Centennial Mountains: A Range Like No Other In Idaho

Alex Feb 11, 2018 Big Table Mountain, Bitterroot Mountains, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT), Environmental, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat Corridor, Hellroaring Creek Drainage, Idaho, Keystone Species, Kilgore Project, Logging, Mining, Montana, Mount Jefferson, Mountain Drainages, Natural Borders, Noise Pollution, Otis Gold, Outdoor Recreation, Peak Bagging, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Ridgeline, Rocky Mountains, Sawtell Peak, Taylor Mountain, Trumpeter Swans, Wilderness

The Centennial Mountains: Our Favorite Places’ Best Kept Secret Sure, in terms of Rocky Mountain celebrities, the Centennials are not exactly A-listers. Glacier National Park lies to the north; Yellowstone

a man on Jefferson peak in the centennials in Idaho looking wester over most of its range on a blue sky day

Parmenides in the Centennials: A Calculus

Eric Feb 04, 2018 Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Barry Lopez, Beaverhead Mountains, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, Hiking, Kilgore Project, Leslie Marmon Silko, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Parmenides, Peak Bagging, Philosophy, Ridgeline, Scott Peak, Stanley, Targhee National Forest, Wilderness, Yell-to-Hell

Prologue and Apology It seems to me that a deductive logic system is among the colder ways to approach reality. It is the extraction of principle from physical. It is,

Kilgore Project will devastate these grizzlies

#Kill the Kilgore Project Before It Kills Our Grizzlies

Alex Feb 01, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Americans, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Leave No Trace, Mining, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, Rhetoric, Roads, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

Archived Campaign that Ended on Feb. 9, 2018. We have a more thorough and updated article for the 2021 Kilgore Project Proposal accepting comments through Feb 11, 2021. The Kilgore Project

A Master Course in the Macabre in Idaho’s Beaverheads

Eric Jan 22, 2018 Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Bear Bait, Beaverhead Mountains, Birch Creek Valley, Camille Saint Saens, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, David Lynch, Fossils, Geomorphology, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, limestone, Macabre, Montana, Mountain Drainages, Peak Bagging, Ridgeline, Rocky Mountains, Scott Peak, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Spencer, Stone, Targhee National Forest, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

From Late June through July of 2017, Alex and I were engaged in a near-300-mile through-hike of eastern Idaho’s mountain ranges. We began at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park

Grizzly bear paw prints next to Oboz hiking boot

Bear Tracks Dilemma

Alex Jan 12, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Effable backpacking, Environmental, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Leave No Trace, National Parks, Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Recreation Ethics, Roads, Rocky Mountains, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

A Bear Dilemma, Clearly On the day of the above photograph, Eric and I had been backpacking 20 miles across the Continental Divide, up and down the ridgeline and

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