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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Hike with Montana Dirt Girls - Sousa Trail + High\, Wide & Handsome
DESCRIPTION:Join the Montana Dirt Girls at Missoula’s Sousa Trailhead off Spanish Peaks Drive for a Tuesday Night Hike up the Sousa and High\, Wide and Handsome trails starting at 6:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nSousa and High\, Wide and Handsome HikeMeet up at the Sousa Trailhead at 6:00 pm Tuesday\, February 3.We can hike up the Sousa Trail to the overlook\, then continue up to High\, Wide and Handsome. This hike will be a there-and-back\, so folks can decide if they want to have a longer or shorter hike. We might get up into snow and ice on the north-facing slopes\, so grippers are a good idea!Trailhead location \n\n\n\nTrail MapItems to bring:*water                    * snacks * headlamp             * bear spray         * layers of clothing  * grippersWe have lots of folks coming in and out each week.Here are some good rules of thumb: \n\n\n\n\nTry to get the group started soon after 6:00 pm\n\n\n\nDo intros\, ask if we have any new folks and get a head count\n\n\n\nBreak into groups if needed & find someone to coordinate each group\n\n\n\nYou don’t have to be the fastest in the group to lead but just make sure we don’t leave someone behind\n\n\n\nHave fun!\n\n\n\n\nNote: Friendly and well-behaved dogs are welcome to join us on hikes. If your pup can be aggressive or unpredictable around other dogs/people\, please leave them at home. If your dog isn’t under voice control\, please plan to leash them up for your hike. Also\, make sure you check if the area is open to dogs. There are several closures that start December 1 and some are yearlong. It’s also good to know the trail-specific leash protocol.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/tuesday-night-hike-with-montana-dirt-girls-sousa-trail-high-wide-handsome/
LOCATION:Sousa Trailhead\, 474-354 Spanish Peaks Drive\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hiking,Outdoors,Women's Events
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SUMMARY:"Evelyn in Transit" author David Guterson  in conversation with novelist Emily Ruskovich at Shakespeare & Company
DESCRIPTION:“Evelyn in Transit” author David Guterson sits in conversation with novelist Emily Ruskovich at Shakespeare & Company in Missoula 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Tuesday\, February 3\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co. hosts a reading and discussion with award-winning author David Guterson on Tuesday\, February 3 at 7:00 pm. Guterson will read from his new novel Evelyn in Transit (W. W. Norton & Co.\, January 2026) and be in conversation with celebrated novelist Emily Ruskovich. This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout Evelyn in Transit:A crystalline short novel about defying expectations\, hitting the road\, and seeking the right way to live.Radically open-minded\, formidably strong\, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others\, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored\, unsuited to life at school\, asks odd questions about faith and time\, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true to herself\, she hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. \n\n\n\nIn distant Tibet\, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn’s as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering\, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet\, who eventually becomes a high lama. \n\n\n\nAnd yet\, their lives are strangely linked—as Evelyn discovers when a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son Cliff is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche\, recently deceased. The lamas’ visit sets off a family crisis and a media firestorm over Cliff’s future. \n\n\n\nWritten in a spare\, precise style of extraordinary beauty\, full of surprising humor and luminosity\, Evelyn in Transit delivers much-needed insight and compassion about humanity’s strivings for transcendence\, and what it might mean to “live the right way.” \n\n\n\nAuthor Biographies:David Guterson is the author of thirteen books\, including the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Snow Falling on Cedars\, which was made into a major motion picture\, translated into twenty-five languages\, and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. He lives on Bainbridge Island\, Washington. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain. She is the fourth American ever to win the Dublin International Literary Award for her debut novel\, Idaho\, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Emily has also won an O. Henry Award\, The Pacific Northwest Book Award\, and the Idaho Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Zoetrope\, One Story\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana\, where she teaches in the MFA program. She lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Her second book\, Nightjar\, is a collection of stories forthcoming from Random House in 2026.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/evelyn-in-transit-author-david-guterson-in-conversation-with-novelist-emily-ruskovich-at-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Live Reading,Book Readings,Book Signing,Literature
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SUMMARY:"Thirty Below" author Cassidy Randall live reading & discussion at Shakepeare & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Author Cassidy Randall makes a visit to Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula for a live reading and discussion of her book “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali” 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Thursday\, February 5\n\n\n\n\n\nShakespeare & Co.\, in partnership with the University of Montana Environmental Studies Program\, is delighted to host a reading and discussion with award-winning author Cassidy Randall on Thursday\, February 5 at 7:00 pm. Randall\, a University of Montana alum and the 2026 Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in Environmental Studies\, will read from her new book Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali (Abrams\, 2025). This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali:Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing\, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten group of climbers who had the audacity to believe that women could walk alone in extraordinary and treacherous heights. \n\n\n\nGrace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America\, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers’ imaginations\, and Grace\, a doctor in Alaska\, had come close to the top\, only to be turned back by altitude sickness and a storm that took the lives of seven fellow climbers in one remorseless blow. \n\n\n\nOther expeditions denied her a place because of her gender\, and when a letter arrived from a climber in California named Arlene Blum\, who’d also been barred from expeditions—unless she stayed in base camp and cooked for the men\, Grace got a defiant idea: she would organize and lead the first-ever all-female ascent of the frozen Alaskan peak. \n\n\n\nEveryone told the “Denali Damsels\,” as the team called themselves\, that it couldn’t be done: Women were incapable of climbing mountains on their own. Men had walked on the moon; women still had not stood on the highest points on Earth. But these six women were unwilling to be limited by sexists and misogynists. They pushed past barriers in society at large\, the climbing world\, and their own bodies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Biography:Cassidy Randall is an award-winning writer who tells stories on the environment\, adventure\, and people who expand human potential. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone\, National Geographic\, the New York Times\, TIME\, Atavist\, Outside\, and Men’s Journal\, among others. She wrote The Hard Parts with Paralympian Oksana Masters\, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was listed as one of the best sports books of the year by the Times. Her work has been awarded the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal in Adventure Writing\, short-listed for the True Story Award\, and included in The Year’s Best Sports Writing. She lives in Montana.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/thirty-below-author-cassidy-randall-live-reading-discussion-at-shakepeare-co/
LOCATION:Shakespeare & Co.\, 103 S. 3rd St. W.\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59801\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cozy Afternoon by Fact & Fiction with Local Poets at Missoula Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Join local poets for a live reading and record release in Cooper Room A at the Missoula Public Library\, for Pure Poetry presented by Fact & Fiction from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Saturday\, February 7\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Missoula poets Aaron Jennings\, Dave Thomas\, James Jay\, Mark Gibbons\, and Sheryl Noethe for an afternoon of tea and poetry at the Missoula Public Library. Poets will share their work with the audience\, and Aaron Jennings will play live music leading up to and shortly after the event. Fact and Fiction will be on hand to sell work from the authors. \n\n\n\nWailing Aaron Jennings is a singer and songwriter living in Missoula\, Montana. A third-generation Montanan who had the good luck or bad timing to be born in Texas. Inspired and challenged by a book of songs and poetry written by his Great-Grandfather; a singing cowboy in the 1920’s and the words “Yodel Here” a young punk unplugged his guitar and started hooting and hollering in the mountains\, valleys\, and tunnels. \n\n\n\nDave Thomas is never just somewhere\, he’s somewhere you never know until he writes it…a burst of shadows…growing new beans in the guts of despair… Railroad Gravel is a book of praise poems for a way through this world… our history smoldering and flaming all around us…with friends\, many of whom have dissolved into ink and now you\, dear reader. –Craig Czury\, author of Postcards & Ancient Texts \n\n\n\nJames Jay has taught poetry and writing at public schools\, jails\, community colleges\, Northern Arizona University\, the University of Nebraska Omaha\, and given Irish Literature lectures at the Arizona Highland Celtic Festival. For a decade\, he served as the president of the Northern Arizona Book Festival. He recently attended the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo. Currently\, he teaches poetry for the Missoula Writing Collaborative. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Cutbank\, Fourteen Hills\, A Dozen Nothing\, The Huffington Post\, and numerous other journals and magazines. His poetry was selected for the New Poets of the American West anthology. For a decade he wrote a biweekly column\, Bartender Wisdom\, for FlagLive!\, an arts and entertainment newspaper. He owns a pub with his wife\, the musician and runner Aly Jay. They have two sons and three dogs (they’re a wily pack). As often as he can\, he plays the ancient Irish game of hurling as a fullback for the Thomas Meagher Hurling Club in Missoula\, Montana\, and he’s the head coach for the University of Montana Griz Hurling Club. \n\n\n\nMark Gibbons grew up in Alberton\, Montana\, where in 1970 he took a poetry workshop in high school taught by an unpublished poet\, James Welch. A student of Richard Hugo’s\, Welch\, went on to become an acclaimed Native American writer. He gave Mark permission to write poetry in his own voice\, out of his own experiences\, and he has been writing ever since. Gibbons taught high school English for a decade and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana. The first college graduate in his Irish-immigrant family\, Mark has held a variety of the blue-collar jobs available to those determined to stay in Montana at all costs. He’s taught poetry in Montana for forty years and was involved with Poetry Out Loud for the last two decades\, since its inception. Mark served as the 10 th Montana Poet Laureate and is the author of thirteen collections of poetry. Mark lives with his wife\, Pam\, in Missoula. \n\n\n\nSheryl Noethe is a poet and founder of the Missoula Writing Collaborative. Noethe is the author of the poetry collections Grey Dog Big Sky (FootHills Publishing\, 2013); As Is (Lost Horse Press\, 2009); The Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press\, 2000)\, winner of a 2001 Pacific Northwest Book Award; and The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press\, 1984). Noethe is also the coauthor with Jack Collom of Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community (Teachers & Writers Collaborative\, 1994). Noethe has received a CutBank Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award\, a Minnesota Voices Award from New Rivers Press\, and an Academy of American Poets Award. She was also the recipient of a 1998 Montana Arts Council Fellowship\, a McKnight Fellowship\, and a 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In 2004\, Noethe was recognized for her work in Missoula schools with the Cultural Achievement Award from the Missoula Cultural Council. In 2011\, Noethe became Montana’s fourth Poet Laureate\, an office she held until 2013. The Montana Arts Council awarded her the Artist Innovation Award in 2021. She is the poetry editor for High Desert Journal.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/cozy-afternoon-by-fact-fiction-with-local-poets-at-missoula-public-library/
LOCATION:Missoula Public Library\, 455 East Main Street\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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SUMMARY:Phyphr and Motifv at Monk's Bar
DESCRIPTION:Phyphr and Motifv bring modern electronic soul to Monk’s Bar in Downtown Missoula at 9:00 pm Saturday\, February 7\n\n\n\n\n\nGet ready\, Montana. Two of the most forward-thinking voices in modern electronic soul are coming together for an unforgettable night Missoula. \n\n\n\nMotifvThe musical moniker of Colorado-born producer Joseph Kechter\, Motifv has carved out a world entirely his own—one where gospel and soul glide effortlessly through futuristic synths\, experimental bass\, and analog-tinged textures. His mastery of sample-based electronic production and magnetic live sets have made 2024 a breakthrough year\, building on the momentum of his acclaimed albums The Path (2019) and Dilated Mind (2021). \n\n\n\nThis year he unveiled Where the Sun Sets and Behind the Moon\, two limited-edition EPs on Philos Records that merge into one immersive\, introspective journey. Forever exploring new sonic terrain\, Motifv continues to push boundaries and craft deeply atmospheric experiences from the studio to the stage. \n\n\n\nPhyphrHailing from North Carolina\, Phyphr is forging a sound that sits somewhere between Soul Bass\, Delta Blues\, and Upside-Down Gospel—a place only he seems able to reach. With live guitar\, talk box\, and seismic low-end\, his signature style has put him on lineups alongside Manic Focus\, The Floozies\, Daily Bread\, and SunSquabi\, and on festival stages such as Hulaween\, Gem & Jam\, Summer Camp\, and Cascade Equinox. \n\n\n\nRecognized by 303 Magazine\, River Beats Dance\, Electric Hawk\, ThisSongIsSick\, EDMTunes\, and more\, Phyphr’s rise has been explosive: 1.3M streams\, 155k listeners\, and 200% growth on Spotify in 2024 alone. His upcoming sophomore LP Crossroads dives into themes of darkness\, light\, and rebirth—ten songs exploring what we sacrifice in pursuit of our wildest dreams.Prepare for deep grooves\, luminous soundscapes\, and an experience that hits both heart and dancefloor. Montana\, we’ll see you soon.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/phyphr-and-motifv-at-monks-bar/
LOCATION:Monk’s Bar\, 221 Ryman Street\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Electronic,Music,Soul
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