角度

Down East evokes and illuminates the spirit and culture of the state we love.

I was raised on the side of a hill in southern Alberta with my parents and three brothers, we had a big bay window in our front room overlooking the Rocky Mountains that I would gaze out of and daydream about first ascent routes (long before I would learn what an ascent route was) and the animals I would encounter on my adventures.

Tom Claycomb is an outdoor writer for Idaho State Journal.

Ellen Airhart writes about emergency preparedness and sanitation.