With its sheer cliff walls, emerald blue lakes and waterfalls, the East Rosebud Canyon in the Beartooth Mountains would probably be a national park if it were located anywhere else, Bill Schneider ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

Dugan Lake in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana (Photo courtesy of Bill Schneider). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was a young, hard-driving member of the Montana Wilderness Association Council ...

Brett French Lee Newspapers Aug 21, 2025 Aug 21, 2025 Nineteen years after he took one of his sons on an ill-fated backpacking attempt to reach Elk Lake in the Beartooth Mountains, Brian Hildreth ...

LIVINGSTON, Mont. — A hiker was rescued after getting lost in the Jewel Lake area, just below Pine Creek Lake, in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, according toPark County Sheriff's Office Search and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Madison-Gallatin Alliance Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association is sponsoring a ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - A HH60M Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter from the Montana Army National Guard’s 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion rescued three hikers from the Princess Lake area of ...

Hike gone bad It was early September of last year when Johnson and his three friends began what was supposed to be a five-day hike into the wilderness area from the Clay Butte Lookout Trailhead in the ...

Bob Anderson was raised in Livingston and spent his time hiking the backcountry of the Absaroka and Beartooth mountain ranges. As an advocate for designation of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Army National Guard recently completed a high-altitude search and rescue mission to recover a missing 71-year-old hiker in the Stillwater Plateau region of the Beartooth ...