Comments on: James “Walkin’ Jim” Stoltz https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/ Assisting the Montana communities of Helena, East Helena, Townsend, White Sulphur Springs, Montana City, Clancy & Lincoln Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:15:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bill Koppen https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-488924 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:15:35 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-488924 I met Jim, amazing guy and talent…I have used his songs in slide shows….he gave me verbal permission at one of his concerts…..he said….use any of my songs you like-that would be ok with me. We shook hands and that was that…..what a GREAT GUY…..I LOVE HIS MUSIC ….BILL

]]> By: Robert Bergschultz https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472518 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:55:49 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472518 I live I WI saw Jim perform at river edge nature center I fell in love with the music and the message he gave through his music I make maple syrup I am making right. Now as I write this listening to his songs asI do every year I would like to visit Helena Mt in June He is missed by a lot of people like me

]]> By: Terry L. Newberry https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472517 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:35:34 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472517 Troubadour lost

]]> By: Pep Washburn https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472516 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:46:45 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472516 So, sad to hear about your passing on, Jim. We have kindred spirits and someday I feel I’ll get to visit with you on the long trails of forever.

]]> By: Pat Bigelow https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472448 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472448 Les, Susan, Lisa, Mark, and all of your families,

I’m so sorry Jim had to pass through this life so quickly. He was an awesome person, with great talent, an incredible vision, and a heart willing and able to share it all. He has left behind pieces of all of that to be shared with countless numbers of us far into the future. God bless you all! love, Pat

]]> By: Mary Fay https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472449 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472449 Walkin’ Jim will be remembered for his baritone voice; singing songs about his love for wild places. An inspiration to all who met him or heard him perform; a loving heart for all beings; I heard him sing for the last time at the California Wilderness Convention in April. I will cherish that memory.

With Deepest Sympathy;

Mary

]]> By: Ruth and Lester Payne https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472450 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472450 With heartfelt sympathy for your loss, Leslie. Just read our Sunday paper out of Spokane and in the Outdoor section next to the article on the new visitor’s center at Yellowstone was and article on Walkin’ Jim Stoltz. Our thoughts and prayers are with you

]]> By: David Johns https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472451 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472451 Wild places and wild creatures have lost a dear and effective friend. All of us at the Wildlands Project are in his debt. Jim will live on not just in the memory of other people, but in the life of the Earth–in all the places he moved people to respect, love and protect.

]]> By: Kevin Hancock https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472452 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472452 My condolences to Jim’s family.
We have all lost an incredibly kind person whose love of this earth and wonderful music will live on. Jim was a person that has truly made a difference in this world.
I will think of him often when I return to the wild places.
RIP my friend…”Let it stay, FOREVER WILD”

]]> By: John Giacalone https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472453 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472453 Wild lands, wild places, wild lives are essential to our well being. It is in these places that we find healing and goodness. Jim your message and life resounds throughout this great land, your songs and lyrics fill the air, and your spirit is sustained within all those you have touched. It’s the good hearts that spring from the salt of the earth, they delighten and brighten my day; we owe it all to the spirit of love and the friends along .. the way. I’m gonah climb a mountain –to see what I can see, feel, and sense.

]]> By: Jen Russell https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472454 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472454 Leslie, Lisa, Susan Grace and Mark, my prayers are with you. From the time at Dartmouth that Raven told him, “Walkin’ Jim, this lady thinks you are me, why don’t you take her to Lou’s for apple pie?”, Jim has been my true friend. Orrin and I were so privileged to visit Jim and Leslie and to appreciate and enjoy Jim’s efforts to share his love and concern for the earth and all God’s creatures. Walkin’ Jim, you’ll always be with us in your music and poetry.

]]> By: Paul Richards https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472447 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472447 I’ll post a tribute to Walkin’ Jim later this afternoon (Sunday, September 5, 2010) at:

Dispatches from the Wildlands:
http://blogs.alternet.org/paulrichards/

]]> By: Jamie Lennox and Dawn Serra https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472446 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472446 By: Madeleine Landis https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472445 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472445 I only met Jim at the Wilderness Conference this April in Berkeley but had heard about him for years because of his great activism. He was so friendly & passionate & inspiring. I now cherish the CD’s & signed book I bought from him. He was kind enough to send me an email very recently, too, tho I had no idea he was so close to the end.

Please accept my sincerest condolences. We will continue his work saving our precious wild places. As a fellow long distance hiker, the wilderness will feel emptier now but I plan to memorize some of his lyrics to recite to people! (I can’t sing 🙂 Thank you. Happy trails will live on! Madeleine Landis

]]> By: Montana Council, Boy Scouts of America https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472444 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472444 Jim was a tremendous human being who taught so many people about the joys of the out of doors. Our sincere sympathy to his family and friends.

]]> By: John (Canada Goose) Wilson https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472443 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472443 Condolences to family and friends.

Jim was admired and respected by many, and was a friend to all. His talent was obvious; his ethics unquestioned. He touched many hearts, and will be sorely missed.

I had the honour to share a breakfast table with him, and other hikers, a few years ago at “Lou’s” restaurant in Hanover, New Hampshire (while at an ALDHA Gathering). It is a fond memory.

]]> By: Gary Lawless, Beth Leonard https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472441 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472441 All of the critters have lost one of their best human friends, and we have too. We will miss Jim’s visits to Maine, and we will miss knowing that he was out there somewhere walking, singing, being. Now he is hiking the Milky Way, and we will look up to the stars, and keep our hearts Forever Wild. We send love to Leslie, to Jim’s family, and thanks to Jim, thanks for being here. We love you.

]]> By: Kathy Murphy https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472440 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472440 Les, Susan, Mark, and Lisa, wish we could be there with you for the memorial service. Walkin Jim made and will continue to make a big impact on all of our lives. We love you guys – Rest in peace Walkin Jim – Love from, Kathy, Kevin, Robert and Brian

]]> By: Karen Frauson https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472439 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472439 Thinking of Walking Jim brings back such great memoies. I still laugh out loud at memories of Jim, Les, Shannon and I in California, hikes in Glacier, great memories of working with him at Lone Mountain Ranch, hikes in Zion and most recently at his concert in Idaho Falls. My thoughts are with Les, Susan Grace, Lisa and Mark. He will be missed greatly and everytime I dance, I will dance for you Jim. Love, Karen

]]> By: Rick & Annette McCollum https://helenafuneralhome.com/obituaries/james-walkin-jim-stoltz/#comment-472437 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://retzmemorials.com/?post_type=case&p=423#comment-472437 Our love and prayers go out to the family and friends of Walkin’ Jim Stoltz. We miss him and his wonderful music and stories. We’re glad we had the opportunity to build a Snail travel guitar for Jim.
Kindest Regards,
Rick & Annette McCollum

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