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Bridger-Teton 2008 Summer Outings

This year, the Bridger-Teton National Forest is launching a new planning process which will determine the fate of this relatively large and critically important forest for the next 20 years. The Wyoming Wilderness Association is actively working for new wilderness designation in the forest.  With the help of Center of Wonder (COW), the Wyoming Wilderness Association (WWA) is pleased to offer three guided outings into wild and unique places in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. These are exceptional opportunities for adults and families to discover spectacular areas while learning about our public wild lands.
 
Inspired by COW, WWA will focus each outing on the theme - The Wonder of Wilderness. The outings will by led by an artist or writer to enhance appreciation and to better understand participants’ deeper connections to the wild. Offering these kinds of guided hikes heightens the direct experience of wild nature, provides good information on treading lightly and gives the participant an opportunity to become part of an advocacy network while protecting wild places for the future.  This kind of hands-on experience of wildness and wilderness leads people to care more deeply about the fate of these lands.

Saturday, September 6 ▲▲ Bridger-Teton NF: Mt. Leidy Highlands Writer’s Tour—Katie Ives, writer & Forrest McCarthy, WWA staff. Ascend1500 feet in under four miles to the summit of Mt. Leidy. These vistas, and our immersion in them, will provide the inspiration for our writing. Katie Ives graduated from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop with an MFA in Fiction, and is the senior editor for Alpinist Magazine. Her fiction, nonfiction, book reviews and translations have appeared in various publications, including Rock & Ice, Alpinist, The American Alpine Journal, She Sends, and more. In 2004, she won the Mammut/Rock & Ice Writing Contest. She has taught outdoor writing workshops through the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and Grand Targhee Resort.

Sunday, September 14 ▲▲▲Bridger-Teton NF: Palisades Wilderness Study Area Writer’s Tour—Molly Loomis, author & Forrest McCarthy, WWA staff. Take a writer’s workshop with Molly Loomis, focusing on developing writing skills as an effective voice for wilderness. In seven miles we will gradually climb 2,100 feet to the summit of Starvation Peak in the heart of the Snake River Range and the Palisades Wilderness Study Area. Molly Loomis has spent the last decade exploring her way around the world via climbing, skiing, guiding, and studying,  splitting her freelance writing with guiding and instructing rock-climbing, mountaineering, and backcountry skiing for NOLS, Alpine Ascents International, and Exum Mountain Guides. Molly has had articles and features published in Alpinist,  Rock and Ice, Climbing, Patagonia, and more.

Saturday, September 20 ▲▲ Bridger-Teton NF: Mt. Leidy Highlands Artist Outing—Joe Arnold, Artist and Tom Turiano, WWA Board Member. This painter workshop with Joe Arnold will hike into the Red Hills of the Gros Ventre landscape to paint the inspiring views. Joe Arnold specializes in the mountaineer's view in his paintings. His many high altitude mountain panoramas have earned him the reputation as the "plein-air artist of thin air." Last year Arnold’s work was featured in a  sole exhibition at the Jackson Hole Center For the Arts entitled, “The Mountaineer's View.” Tom Turiano, author of Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone is a mountaineer extraordinaire.