Montana

Montana, particularly Northwestern Montana, is well known for its abundance of a delicious deep purple delight, the huckleberry. This is a story about huckleberries; it is merely disguised as a Montana adventure.
It all began on a Tuesday morning with a homemade huckleberry latte and a trip to the Boise,… Read the rest

Seeking zen–achieving our chi–is what Cali and I envisioned our climb up Big Hole Pass would be. One yoga pose every mile is the key to hill-climbing enlightenment, we were told the night before.

The only thing we achieve is unnerving frustration and a skin that reeks of garlic and… Read the rest

The twilight hour is upon us and we’re speeding up the Going-To-the-Sun Highway towards Logan Pass in Glacier National Park to catch Montana’s big sky magic.
Only tonight, the we failed the troll’s riddle and we weren’t allowed over the pass. Shane, one of our hosts, had told us they… Read the rest

Leaving Washington, I felt as though my first stop in Missoula, MT would be a perfect fit for me. As I made my way along the Clark Fork River, the feeling of comfort was soon replaced with fear and confusion–the country wave wasn’t working. Instead of smiles and the polite… Read the rest

Coming off a great winter, the Elements Tour followed the snow into the
river and hooked up with countless athletes throughout the great states of
Montana and Idaho and up to British Colombia.
Among the first stops was Big Timber Creek, one of my favorite rivers that
I helped pioneer… Read the rest

Just off our successful and scary Rainier expedition, we were reminiscing about last year’s similar trip in Montana… the first of the (now) annual YogaSlacker “sufferfests” that my brother puts together.
As we put together words and video to capture this most recent epic, we thought we’d share last year’s… Read the rest

The KAVU Elements Tour recently participated in its biggest event of the year so far ““ Garden City Localfest in Missoula, which attracted several thousand people to Caras Park on the riverfront. Organized with the Sustainable Business Council of Montana, Localfest celebrated Missoula, encouraged people to shop locally, and spread… Read the rest

My fingers are freezing, enough that it’s getting difficult to push the shutter button on my camera. But I keep snapping photos because I feel like this is a once in a lifetime moment; it’s early morning, the lake is perfectly still and I am the only one walking the… Read the rest