For the third year I have helped put on the Bozeman Tritons Triathlon.  This is Bozeman, Montana’s biggest and longest running triathlon event.  We have been offering a Sprint and Half Iron distance race, and each year it has sold out at our 250 racer limit. Racing a triathlon takes a level of commitment to training and suffering.  I know, […]

Life can be such a treat.  Spring in Bozeman has been fantastic.  A mix of sun and rain has resulted in an amazingly lush landscape, snow in the mountains, and blankets of wildflowers.  I’ve been exploring the trails around the Gallatin Valley as I train for a marathon trail run in July. Today took me on a 15 mile run/hike […]

I’ve been extremely slow posting anything of my own from my recent trip to Assateague Island on  Maryland’s Atlantic shore.  I figure: why post my own work when Barry Long at Eye In Hand has been telling the tale so brilliantly over the past few weeks.  Amazingly, days after we left Assateague, Hurricane Sandy hit the island hard.  Our camp site […]

There is something about fall that makes me want to go fishing.  Decide for yourself. A dusting of snow on the mountains…. The angle of light through the trees…. The buff of dry grass against the river… A hungry little rainbow trout rising to attractor flies…. Lenticular clouds, a sign of change to come…. And the chance for a big […]

For the past eight years a decent portion of my professional life has been spent working on a large, inter-agency study of the Yellowstone River.  Over this time we have mapped changes to the river and adjacent land areas in support of a court-mandated, cumulative effects study of human impacts to the river.  This study is in response to the […]