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If you can't hike like Bob Marshall, then you can always follow along in spirit and get a good photo while you're at it.

That's how photographer Chris Peterson spent his summer.

He originally wanted to do a series of day-hikes for the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.

The 17-year veteran of the Hungry Horse News planned on trekking 50 miles a day for five days, and had already completed one such hike in the Scapegoat Wilderness.

Then he came upon wilderness pioneer Bob Marshall's hiking journal, posted on the website of the foundation that bears his name.

It's a log, jotted in pencil, of an eight-day, 288-mile hike Marshall undertook in 1928 at the age of 28, traveling from the Swan Range to the Mission Mountain Wilderness.

For posterity's sake, someone transcribed Marshall's looping script on a typewriter, where the numbers lay clear the intimidating clip at which Marshall hiked.

He set out alone in the Jewel Basin and traveled all the way south through what's now the Bob Marshall Wilderness, crossed what's now Highway 83, and went "way back" into the Mission Mountains at an impressive pace.

"Bob was just an amazing, out-of-his-mind hiker," Peterson said.

He did the math, and estimates Marshall must've been averaging 4 to 5 miles an hour.

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Montana Public Radio has started a new schedule for its broadcast offerings, including changes to its Montana news and evening programming.

One of the main changes is that rather than grouping Montana news into a separate “Montana Evening Edition” program, MTPR will instead be including local stories and headlines during “Morning Edition” from 7-9 a.m. as well as “All Things Considered” in the evenings from 5-7 p.m

“This is going to allow us to continue to give a fresh take on the news, and provide more in-depth stories,” program director Michael Marsolek said.

MTPR is a public service of the University of Montana and is a National Public Radio affiliate the broadcasts in western and central Montana.

NPR national news program “Here and Now” will be added in each weekday at 1 p.m.

Several of the more popular programs are moving to a new time slot at 7 p.m. after the end of “All Things Considered,” what Marsolek called “some of the best of National Public Radio.” Shows like “Moth Radio Hour”, “This American Life”, “TED Radio Hour”, “The Write Question”, “Musician’s Spotlight” and “Radiolab” will now occupy this segment over the course of the week.

“We looked at it as also an opportunity to look at the schedule, rebuild the evenings, and move some popular programs into a prime time block,” Marsolek said.

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