‘Hike Slow’ with sister-artists and 3 Rivers Outdoor Co.

There’s time spent in nature, and then there’s time spent with nature. Or that’s the line drawn in the dirt by sister-filmmakers in their new 13-minute film, “Hike

Slow.”

Clara, the “weird little tomboy,” and Rosalie, the “delicate artist,” were inseparableeven among their family’s flock of seven siblings raised in rural West Virginia. As adults, they find themselves evenmore intertwined, as avid students, appreciators and artistic archivists of the natural world, through Rosalie’s watercolor art, which was detailed in a February goodness story and is sold at retailers throughout Pittsburgh and Appalachia,and Clara’s filmmaking.

But when Rosalie got married last year, their relationship entered new pastures, which required its own honeymoon of sorts.

For 14 days in Montana’s Centennial Valley — just two weeks after Rosalie’s wedding — the sisters were “lone cowgirls in the Wild, Wild West,” as the film’s narration says. But rather than focusing on look-at-me Instagram posts or ticking adventurous goals off a bucket list, they hiked slow, marveling at fungi, animal tracks and clusters of wildflowers.

They weren’t totally detached from a task list, however, as they sought to make a film.

With the financial support of the Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center in Lima, Mont., they saw the trip through an actual lens and a mental one, while they searched for the next best shot, where to place microphones and how a storyline might emerge from the simple acts of walking and noticing.

But it was a chance to test their thesis: How do you slow down and “put up a fight to stay present”?

Their weapons were pocket-sized paint palettes, binoculars, journals and pens, each of which forced them to stop and surrender to their surroundings together, which, though they filmed it, was really the purpose of their trip.

“It feels really natural to work together professionally, since we’ve been scheming and dreaming together from the time we were little kids,” Rosalie said. “We learn from each other constantly.”

“Hike Slow” will be entered into a handful of outdoors-oriented film festivals, but first it will be screened, along withother locally made films, at 3Rivers OutdoorCo. on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Can’t make it? Check it out on YouTube on Rosalie Haizlett’s channel.

Rosalie Haizlett Sisters and West Virginia-based artists Rosalie and Clara Haizlett will screen their new film “Hike Slow” at 3 Rivers Outdoor Co. on Tuesday.

Rosalie Haizlett, left, and her sister Clara spent two weeks in Montana to create their 13-minute documentary “Hike Slow.”