Winter Retreats: Humanities at Lochsa Lodge

Join us for a peaceful humanities retreat in the heart of Lewis & Clark’s Bitterroot Mountains. Enjoy good food, fine wine, a magical landscape, snug cabins, great books, and the kinds of conversations you always dream about when you read. Clay S. Jenkinson is a master conversationalist, facilitator, and storyteller, and he looks forward to these days of playful but serious discussion for the full year.

Bring your friends. Make new ones. Rest, read, sip, meditate, converse, confess, and argue in the best sense of the term. Soak in the hot springs.

We meet for conversation mid-morning, early afternoon, and occasionally in the evening, but there will be plenty of time each day for reading, writing, outdoor exploring, and an optional group activity. Lochsa Lodge offers you a beautiful setting near the magnificent Lochsa River; hearty, country meals; a daily outdoor campfire; and a crackling fire indoors. The lodge, rebuilt in 2001, is modern. The cabins are snug, some of them Spartan. Some cabins were built in 1929, others in 2002. They are precisely what you envision when you think of a winter retreat in the woods.

In 2024, we are offering two retreats at Lochsa Lodge.

Come to one. Come to both. Come join our whimsical mix of laughter and delightful conversation and intellectual insight.

Winter Retreat: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of the Atomic Bomb
January 7 – 12, 2024 - Waiting List Only
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Winter Retreat: Gilgamesh and Moby Dick
January 14 – 19, 2024
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