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Mount Baldy looms left of center in the background The Baldy Blitz, has a 30ish-year history.  The Blitz is a race up and back down...

V: An Alternative Realty     1      7:15 PM: Bringing Sam in for Questioning Captain Pierce of the local Bridger police force walks up...

4:   Higher Dimensions   1      Back in the Lab There had been a guard in the hall, a prisoner was wheeled in and out.  Everyone in the...

Mid-March 2025: There are places on the planet that have a mythical feel to each of us; which places have that feel are different for you...

2: Metaphysics, Ch 11-20 11      Second Test After much cajoling, Nora agrees to be their next test subject.  Marhan relates that he...

Chuck Romeo March 24, 2025 Version 11b: 82,800 words   And while the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it...

Kiener's Route on Longs Peak in red; Green dot is our perch: picture courtesy of Summit Post September 2nd, 2010: It was getting late. ...

February, in Bozeman, is my favorite time of winter.  It is cold; the chill is inescapable.  The world is white; the land is buried;...

The title at the top was my name for the article. The article, as it appears in Outside Bozeman, has a different title, "Where the Wild...

This is an old story, both because it took place more than 40 years ago and because I wrote it more than 20 years ago. It's also the...

Outside Bozeman Winter 2024-25. They did a good job editing my article. The AI generated art is spectacular. They got everything...

Gallatin Peak from Summit Lake October 12, 2024: We grunted our way up to the high ridge on Gallatin Peak.  It was me, my son-in-law,...

“Two beers please Jake,” Ella said to the bartender while holding up two fingers to make her order clear in case he couldn’t quite hear...

The current was strong; I held onto the clothesline that had been strung across the river to aid our crossings.  The river got deeper...

Mt Brown lookout Ed and I stepped off the trail to let the mountain goat pass by.  We were high up on Mount Brown in Glacier National...

Josh standing at the edge of Death Canyon near Pass Lake “So wait, you’re telling me that the only things on this sandwich are breaded...

Is it for the long ride in pre-dawn darkness on a chill August morn?  Is it the anticipation as we wait for the start?  Is it the...

It's Wedenesday, August 7th. It’s been a big training year; it’s been a good training year.  Since January 1st, I’ve run/hiked 1,022...

There are three approaches to Granite Peak, none of them are short, none of them are easy.  At 12,799 feet, Granite is Montana’s highest...

Enchaining: def , to bind or hold as if with chains. Ever since I moved to Bozeman in June 2020, I have found the prospect of enchaining...