Stories

The valley, one story at a time.

The mountain that moved, the river that disappears, the road over the top. Short pieces about the country under Mount Borah, written from here.

A dark cow moose and her reddish-brown calf standing in tall green willows beside Trail Creek Road.

The Back Road to Sun Valley Most People Are Too Nervous to Drive

Trail Creek Road is the dirt shortcut from Mackay to Sun Valley: a 7,900-foot pass, moose in the willows, six campgrounds, and closed half the year.

The places in these stories, with the drive times.

12 of them, one page each — what the road actually is, when it opens, what it costs, and the parts that are genuinely risky. Free.

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