Red Ants Pants of White Sulpher Springs, Montana made for gals who buck bales, clear trails

Whenever you try to fit a round body into square pants, something bad is bound to happen.

Just ask Sarah Calhoun, a former Outward Bound instructor and trail crew leader who grew so weary of wearing ill-fitting male-oriented work pants that she decided to start her own company.

"It was so frustrating," Calhoun said, recounting her three years with the Student Conservation Association, a volunteer organization that builds trails and makes other improvements to public lands.

"When your pants don’t fit, you can’t move as easily," said Calhoun, 30. "You have to put your tool down and keep pulling up your pants."

Red Ants Pants http://www.redantspants.com/ , based in this central Montana community of 900, makes tough, double-knee, double-seat work pants in 70 different sizes. Calhoun’s trousers have a cult following among Montana ranchers, scientists in Antarctica, California construction workers and landscapers in the Southwest.

TOM HOWARD Of The Gazette Staff

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