Shorty Peak lookout offers spectacular views
Waking up on top of a mountain as the horizon turns orange with nothing blocking the view is an amazing sight–especially from the comfort of…
Tag: Local History
Swarm of earthquakes one for the history books
When the dishes and windows rattled and the house shook for 10 to 15 seconds my first thought was a major train derailment. But then…
Did you feel the earthquake?
Earthquakes are uncommon in North Idaho so when the windows rattled and the house shook, it took a minute register what happened. I hadn’t felt…
Pondering Lake Pend Oreille
There is something about large bodies of water that I cannot describe. I found myself gazing in wonder out over Lake Pend Oreille on a…
Eileen Dam a reminder of early mining days
Ninety years ago construction began on a monumental project that never came to fruition–the Eileen Dam. A rock failure caused the entire project to be…
Mountains moved to form the Purcell Trench
The Kootenai Valley and the Selkirk, Purcell and Cabinet Mountains are the main geographic features in the county. One geologic feature is responsible for how…
Bettles: A small town north of the Arctic Circle
Tis the season of spring migration and as birds return to their northern summering grounds, I return to my summering grounds in Bettles, Alaska. Located…
Old Bettles Ski
Located downriver about six miles from Bettles is Old Bettles—orginally called Bettles until the new Bettles was built and after that it was referred to as Old…
Driving into Bettles
After loading all the boxes of goods that couldn’t freeze into the backseats of our trucks we (consisting of Ryan, Eric, Fawn and I) departed North Pole…
Fire Lookouts of Boundary County, Idaho
Standing on a high peak during a lightning storm is not recommended but not long ago, men and women endured the storms in small towers…
Swarm of earthquakes one for the history books
When the dishes and windows rattled and the house shook for 10 to 15 seconds my first thought was a major train derailment. But then…
Did you feel the earthquake?
Earthquakes are uncommon in North Idaho so when the windows rattled and the house shook, it took a minute register what happened. I hadn’t felt…
Pondering Lake Pend Oreille
There is something about large bodies of water that I cannot describe. I found myself gazing in wonder out over Lake Pend Oreille on a…
Eileen Dam a reminder of early mining days
Ninety years ago construction began on a monumental project that never came to fruition–the Eileen Dam. A rock failure caused the entire project to be…
Mountains moved to form the Purcell Trench
The Kootenai Valley and the Selkirk, Purcell and Cabinet Mountains are the main geographic features in the county. One geologic feature is responsible for how…
Bettles: A small town north of the Arctic Circle
Tis the season of spring migration and as birds return to their northern summering grounds, I return to my summering grounds in Bettles, Alaska. Located…
Old Bettles Ski
Located downriver about six miles from Bettles is Old Bettles—orginally called Bettles until the new Bettles was built and after that it was referred to as Old…
Driving into Bettles
After loading all the boxes of goods that couldn’t freeze into the backseats of our trucks we (consisting of Ryan, Eric, Fawn and I) departed North Pole…
Fire Lookouts of Boundary County, Idaho
Standing on a high peak during a lightning storm is not recommended but not long ago, men and women endured the storms in small towers…