As a graduate of journalism and geology Montana
Hodges found her niche writing outdoor books for Falcon Guides.
Love of nature and inspiration to educate has led her into a career
of outdoor writing, hoping to encourage people to get outside and
explore earth's natural wonders.
Montana has worked as a print, internet, and
magazine journalist, backcountry guide, outdoor photographer,
geographic photographer, and outdoor guide author. Adventures into
the wilds have taken her from digging dinosaur bones in the
badlands of Montana, to as far south as opal mining in the deserts
of Australia, and as far north as bush plane aerial photography for
United State Geologic Survey in Alaska.
Through a lifetime of camping, hiking, and
rockhounding, Montana has been attracted to nature and vastness,
suitably leading her to work in Alaska. She has found herself on
the other side of the articles with stories of her adventures and
work being published in The Sacramento Bee, Rock 'n Gem Magazine,
and the State Hornet Alumni Magazine. Her nature photography has
been featured in several art shows and galleries.
With any chance she gets she is in the great
outdoors working with geology or journalism. During the summers she
spends several months in the field, camping and exploring Alaska.
She is also an active member of the Chugach Gem and Mineral
Society, Mountaineering Society of Alaska, Sierra Club, Society of
Environmental Journalists, Outdoor Writers Association of America
and a speaker for Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids.
Montana travels between her current base in
Anchorage, Alaska, to wherever the adventures may take her. She has
spent the last few years working across Alaska, exploring each inch
of Alaskan highway from Kodiak Island to the Arctic Ocean, always
camping her way across a state two-and-a-half times the size of
Texas.
