Paddling Montana

PADDLING MONTANA, 2nd edition (Falcon)Hank Fischer and Carol Fischer The completely up-to-date detailed guide to Montana’s 32 major rivers from the state’s premier river guides. This new edition provides information on access points, distances, river difficulties and hazards, maps with distance mileages, and phone numbers for obtaining up-to-the-minute floating conditions. The text contains anecdotes and sidebars about indigenous history, Lewis and Clark routes, avoiding crowds, and rules for traveling waterways such as the Missouri, the Yellowstone, the Flathead, the Smith, and many others. Hank Fischer is a 30-year river veteran who is also a writer and environmentalist. He works for the National Wildlife Federation in Missoula. His wife Carol is a writer and has worked as a fishing guide in addition to many other outdoor endeavors in Montana.