My Billings Gazette

Bozeman ultralight backpacker Ryan Jordan is offering to take everyone on a 120-mile romp into the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Great Bear wilderness areas this month.

Jordan isn't planning a mass descent on northwestern Montana, instead he'll be posting Tweets and real-time audio updates via satellite phone as well as SPOT locations that will allow visitors to track his progress on his blog during the hiking/packrafting trip July 5-14.

"I just wanted to give a headsup to some of you that I will be experimenting with social media from a short expedition as an avenue to engage armchair adventurers next week," Jordan wrote in an e-mail.

When asked if all the extra interaction would take away from the trip, Jordan responded: "It's a pretty minimal burden, actually, and I'm only broadcasting on this one, not interacting 2-way. I once did a full on audio/video/photo upload from an expedition and that was a lot to manage."