Sunny Montgomery writes for several Chattanooga Times Free Press publications including Chatter, Dining Out, Get Out Chattanooga, Live Well and Tennessee Valley Parents. She hails from Central Kentucky where she began her writing career as an alternative sports writer and where she first developed her love for the outdoors. Sunny is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and a certified Tennessee State Naturalist.
Within the past three issues of Get Out, we have featured a different conservation group's newly hired executive director — and all have been women.
by Sunny MontgomerySkin-to-the-wind season may be over, but cool weather doesn't have to cost you all your summer paddling gains.
by Sunny MontgomeryZachary Cross doesn't like to fall.
by Sunny MontgomeryPrivate kayak instructor and author of "Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians," the guidebook to Southeastern whitewater paddling, Kirk Eddlemon shares his all-season gear list.
by Sunny MontgomeryFollowing our interview with the first woman to set the Appalachian Trail speed record, this month's letter reflects on women in the outdoors.
by Sunny MontgomeryFounding father Benjamin Franklin believed the wild turkey should be our national symbol.
by Sunny MontgomeryLocated next to Coolidge Park in downtown Chattanooga, Adventure Sports Innovation offers some of the latest in recreation technology — an electric surfboard and the world's first all-terrain snowboarding device, for example.
by Jennifer Bardoner and Sunny MontgomeryComfort food. Cheat meal. Guilty pleasure.
by Sunny Montgomeryin 2011, Asheville, North Carolina's Jennifer Pharr Davis became the first woman to set the Appalachian Trail speed record, helping her become named of National Geographic's 2012 "Adventurers of the Year."
by Sunny MontgomeryForty feet up against a sandstone wall, Rich Moore dangled from a rope, gripping his camera.
by Sunny MontgomerySharon Stolberg is no stranger to rough roads.
by Sunny MontgomeryThis month, the Louisiana waterthrush leaves Chattanooga to journey back to its Guatemalan wintering grounds.
by Sunny MontgomeryOutdoorspeople love to talk about their scars. And why wouldn't they?
by Sunny MontgomeryTo prepare for Gauley Fest, all year, whitewater paddlers train — both for the river and, paddlers often joke, for the after-party, which has a reputation of going all night.
by Sunny MontgomeryOn my upper left thigh, I have a circular scar from when I was 7 and a wasp crawled into my sleeping bag.
by Sunny MontgomeryGet Out Chattanooga's fall magazine issue features the stories behind local outdoorspeople's gnarliest scars.
by Sunny MontgomeryFundraising on Facebook "is probably the lowest-effort philanthropy one can think of," writes Davide Banis in a 2018 Forbes magazine article.
by Sunny MontgomeryThis month's Naturalist Note tells the story of writer Sunny Montgomery's childhood friendship with an American robin.
by Sunny MontgomeryI am standing in a room.
by Sunny MontgomeryPluviophile (noun): a person who has a fondness for or a desire for rain; a lover of rain - also known as a creek boater.
by Sunny Montgomery