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Red, White, and You: A Weekend Ride on British Columbia’s Powder Highway

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Aaron Theisen

The Powder Highway of southeast British Columbia boasts the world’s most concentrated collection of skiable experiences: eight ski resorts and dozens of heli- and cat-skiing operations and luxury backcountry lodges linked by 677 kilometers of pavement. The names of the region’s resorts—Whitewater, RED Mountain, Revelstoke, Kicking Horse, Fernie—stoke road-trip plans in skiers’ minds; it’s the […]

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Get Ready for Winter in the Northwest

Events, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Out There Venture

With fall in the Inland Northwest packed with awesome pre-season winter sports events, it’s time to get out there and hit the gear swaps, ski and snowboard films, winter kickoff parties and events, and skills clinics. Be stoked and ready when the snow flies! October 10: The Essentials of Backcountry Skiing Learn about ski, boot,

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Ride into history in Summerland

Destinations, Sponsored, Travel / By Aaron Theisen

History Comes Alive on the Kettle Valley Railway Summerland, in British Columbia’s south Okanagan, exudes history, from the summer homes of Canada’s first fathers to the orchards of the region’s first fruit growers–settlers here brought the first cultivated apple tree to the Okanagan. The best way to step into Summerland’s past? Step aboard the Kettle

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2018 Northwest Music, Art, and Outdoor Festival Guide

Festivals, Lifestyle / By Amy McCaffree

Explore a new city through its festival, as you exchange smiles and rub elbows with locals who enjoy common interests. Use this guide of more than 50 regional events to help plan your weekend road-trips and summer vacations—choosing destinations and dates that coincide with festivals. Whether you like bluegrass bands and beer gardens or small-town

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8 Inland NW Bike Trails to Add to Your Bucket List

Biking, Get Out There / By Sarah Hauge

Whether you prefer long road tours, short family-friendly rides, or bikepacking off the grid, the Inland Northwest offers an array of beautiful, fun, and challenging bike trails worth checking out this season. Route of the Hiawatha This 15-mile trail leads through 10 tunnels and across seven trestles (some over 200 feet high). The 1.6

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Inland NW Race, Ride & Event Guide

Get Out There, Races & Rides / By Amy McCaffree

Whether you are a road or trail warrior or an occasional outdoor recreationist, there’s something for everyone in this comprehensive guide to races, rides, and outdoor events around the Inland Northwest. See you at the starting line! BIKING Bike Everywhere Challenge (May 1-31): May is officially Bike Everywhere Month and the Spokane Bicycle Club (spokanebikes.org)

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Canada Road Trip: Kimberley Alpine Resort

Lifestyle, Road Trips / By Aaron Theisen

Amongst serious skiers, hearing a ski resort described as “family friendly” is, if not the kiss of death, the kiss of disinterest. The skinny on Kimberley Alpine Resort, in British Columbia’s East Kootenays, is that it’s family-friendly. But watching skier Steve Blake, who grew up skiing this mountain, launch a 60-foot high-speed spread-eagle jump

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Nelson, B.C.—Cody Caves Provincial Park

Adventure Sports, Destinations, Get Out There, Travel / By Siobhan Ebel

Ainsworth, B.C., north of Nelson, is known for its hot springs and access to Kootenay Lake, but lesser known is Cody Caves Provincial Park, located just north of Ainsworth. Cody Caves is a system of limestone caves in the Selkirk Mountains formed around an underground stream. More than 170 million years of erosion have left

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Cyclists racing on Long Bridge across Lake Pend Oreille in the Chafe 150 event.

Inland NW Race, Ride & Event Guide

Biking, Events, Get Out There, Races & Rides, Running / By Out There Venture

The Inland Northwest has no shortage of amazing races, rides and outdoor events for runners, walkers, road and mountain bikers, and triathletes. Many support deserving causes and all offer fun, unique experiences that motivate us to be more active and get outside more. We put together this first annual guide to motivate all of us

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View of Kootenay Lake with wildflowers in the foreground.

Fall is the Perfect Time for a Selkirk Loop Road Trip

Road Trips, Travel / By Aaron Theisen

I arrived at the trailhead to St. Leon Hot Springs, in British Columbia’s Arrow Lakes Valley – unsigned and accessed by a rough logging road, like many such Canadian destinations – just as a local painter and her guests were leaving. Soliciting suggestions for camping nearby, I ruled out their previous night’s accommodations, wherein they

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