MWA Announces 2016 Wilderness Walks

HELENA — Beginning in May and lasting throughout the summer, Montana Wilderness Association (MWA) is offering more than 100 free day hikes, field trips, trail building and maintenance projects and wildland inventory outings across some of the state’s most magnificent backcountry, including wilderness areas, proposed wilderness areas and roadless lands.

Since the program’s beginnings in July of 1962, when MWA founders Ken and Florence Baldwin led 40 hikers on the first Wilderness Walk to Table Mountain in the Spanish Peaks, the intention of the Wilderness Walks program has remained the same—to...