Editor's note: This is the eighth of a series of peakbagging hikes provided by Bozeman native Mike Pierre. At 10,157 feet, Trapper Peak is the tallest mountain in western Montana's Bitterroot Range.

Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S. Forest Service) The Trump administration has backed off a logging ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest is seeking the public's comments on two proposed new trails in the Darby Ranger District that will provide more opportunity for hikers, horseback riders, ...

Darby's Louise Smyth Conner, now 80, has lived in the valley since she was 4 It's a surprisingly warm October afternoon, the kind of day that tricks you into thinking that summer will linger endlessly ...