Todd Stevens
Storm peak lake, the hike
If you drive about an hour north of McCall Idaho, you’ll come to a trailhead that’s really just a dead end road. Back in 2007, my brother...
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Night Writer
Todd Stevens
- Sep 21
- 14 min
The Trail, scene thirty nine
Sometime during the night fog moved in, dense, like soaked gray cotton. When Tom woke, it was daylight, but muted from the fog, it was...
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Todd Stevens
- Sep 16
- 7 min
The Trail. scene thirty eight
Evening crept in slowly, then in the span of thirty minutes the orange and red sunset turned dead gray, and then pitch black. Once again...
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Todd Stevens
- Sep 8
- 11 min
The Trail, scene thirty seven
The kid was right, it was cold. They sat with their backs against the cab side of the box, wrapped in their bedding. The sides of the box...
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Todd Stevens
- Sep 6
- 2 min
The Last Time
I lost both of my grandmothers over the course of the last five years. They’ve both been on my mind a lot over the last couple of weeks....
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 31
- 12 min
The Trail, scene thirty six
Larry leaned over the steering wheel as he piloted the motorhome through the dark canyon, his hands so tight on the steering wheel that...
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 26
- 12 min
The Trail, scene thirty five
By the time they’d made their way to the river and filled the receptacles with water, and then walked back, the man had used a dish rag...
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 19
- 16 min
The Trail, scene thirty four
The road wound through the steep canyon like a snake, undulating left and right in a steady climb. For long stretches it paralleled a...
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 12
- 10 min
The Trail, scene thirty three
Traffic streamed back and forth as they marched steadily southward. They were full, clean, and rested, and for the first time in days...
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 6
- 9 min
The Trail, scene thirty two
Beyond the brightly lit gas station, to the south, it was mostly dark. They followed the road in the same direction their ride had gone,...
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Todd Stevens
- Aug 3
- 3 min
What I Got
None of it has turned out how I thought it would, almost none of it. I was going to be footloose and fancy free, and live the life of a...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 31
- 28 min
The Trail, scene thirty one
They ate the fried fish and roasted corn, and Tom could never remember being more grateful for a hot meal in his life. When they’d...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 28
- 2 min
Creature Feature
When I was a kid in the mid 70s', every Saturday afternoon all the kids in my Missoula neighborhood used to gather in Wapikiya park and...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 25
- 15 min
The Trail, scene thirty
In the dark they put together a cold, cobbled breakfast, granola bars, a half a bag of peanuts, and dry ramen noodles that they crunched...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 18
- 6 min
The Trail, scene twenty nine
They walked through the gray, straight down rain all morning, at the top of each rise they could see the big river they’d seen the night...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 11
- 14 min
The Trail, scene twenty eight
The smoke was still present, but not nearly as dense as it had been before their ride, and the stars were clearly visible through the...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 5
- 5 min
Fishing in the moonlight
There’s a place way back up in the Blackfoot canyon in Western Montana, that I used to frequent when I was single. There’s a little...
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Todd Stevens
- Jul 5
- 7 min
The Trail, scene twenty seven
The road that intersected the tracks was built up from the prairie with yellow gravel, and was a welcome sight. Once they mounted the...
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Todd Stevens
- Jun 29
- 12 min
The Trail, scene twenty six
Something woke Tom very early. There was light in the morning air, but it was just enough to turn everything a deep blue gray. He raised...
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Todd Stevens
- Jun 24
- 16 min
The Trail, scene twenty five
Wind grew strong out of the west, pushing the thick slog of clouds eastward like a massive invisible plow. Cat and Tom leaned into it,...
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