The Idaho Panhandle and northwest Montana, a land only just reawakened from slumbering under ice. The Cabinet, Purcell and Selkirk ranges; the Kootenai, Clark Fork and Pend Oreille rivers. Steep mountains, inland rainforest, big lakes, rivers that flow in unexpected directions. Fingers of the continental ice sheet scoured these valleys, dammed rivers, rearranged watersheds and unleashed titanic floods, but the landscape's epic history is now concealed under lush growth and quiet beauty.