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SPARK PLEIN TO SEE Local artist Kenneth Yarus shares the process of painting in the great outdoors. Onward to the Glacier By Kenneth Yarus The artist looking mighty stoic. The artist’s portable studio ANDREW KROP “P lein air artist Kenneth Yarus combines his...
Headwaters A Far cabin in the dark woods On hitch in a remote corner of Glacier National Park, a nostalgic trail dog reflects on the ranger era of Kishenehn station. The Kishenehn Cabin, 1932 BENJAMIN ALVA POLLEY I n the autumn of 2002, the wind trembled the...
Field Notes Adventures in motherhood with the Octagon bike trailer, a cage match on wheels Think you’re a tough adventurer? Try two and a half miles with six kids under 3. KATIE CANTRELL W hen our two girls were barely 1 and not-quite-3, my husband Nick brought home a...
Field Notes Fifty Classic Worst Climbs of North America: Mount Cleveland Think a 35-mile, 10,000 vertical-foot day hike sounds rough? Here’s how to make it even worse. MIKE BESTWICK I n 1979, Steve Roper and Allen Steck published the inspiring book Fifty Classic...
