Picture yourself IN a boat on a river—a drift boat, on the Spokane River. As you round the bend, you realize the gate at your take-out spot is locked. A cyclist rolling down the trail stops to portage her bike around a fallen tree. You remember making the same portage a week ago. What’s happening […]
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Help North Idaho plan non-motorized services by taking this survey. You DON’T need to live in Idaho to take it. Make your voice heard on non-motorized transportation: Public Asked to Take Local Non-Motorized Survey Kootenai Metropolitan Planning Organization (KMPO) is asking for assistance from the public in developing a region-wide Non-Motorized Transportation Plan and is
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This just in from NIC Outdoor Pursuits: NIC Outdoor Pursuits to host uphill/downhill ski race Who: North Idaho College’s Outdoor Pursuits program What: will host an uphill/downhill ski race When: at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 Where: at the Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area. How: The race entry fee is $10. Discount lift tickets
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NIC Outdoor Pursuits offers specialty outdoors films Who: North Idaho College’s Outdoor Pursuits program in conjunction with the Winter Wildlands Alliance What: will present the Backcountry Film Festival When: at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22 Where: in the Meyer Health and Sciences Building Room 100. How: Cost is $10 for adults or $7 for students.
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I know not everyone reads the Spokesman as closely as I do so I thought I would present this link about a large new outdoor competition to be held at Farragut State Park in North Idaho. The article says the event, to be called, Adventure Sports Week, will take place from June 5-14. Alison Boggs
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By Jon Snyder, Jon Jonckers, & Derrick Knowles Please take a moment while charging your GPS and IPhone to consider the hallowed tradition of the regional outdoor guidebook. It’s no secret that outdoor knowledge has exploded on the internet. Sites with user submitted data and comments are proliferating and enhancing what we know of the
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How about some good news about protecting rivers? This news comes from American Rivers, the group responsible for the annual Endangered Rivers list: 1,000 miles of rivers in seven states to be protected as Wild and Scenic Thursday, January 15, 2009 Senate passes public lands legislation protecting over 270,000 acres along 82 rivers Washington, DC
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THE SNOW BELT AT Palouse Divide Nordic Ski Area is a recreational gem tucked into the Hoodoo Mountains atop a 3,600-foot pass in Idaho’s southern Benewah County. The groomed ski area and charming retreat center next door make this a rural destination worth checking out. The trail s ystem straddles the border between the St.
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We’ve all seen those kids on the ski hill—fast, fearless. They whiz by, leaving you coated in snow dust, barely able to make out the racing association logo on the back of their ubiquitous team jackets. Who are these kids, slaloming around ski school snow snakes and dipping into trail-lining trees? More often than not,
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Jonckers skiing in Idaho. In case you haven’t heard about the avalanche threat in the backcountry here’s a report from OTM writer Jon Jonckers: I can tell you first-hand from backcountry skiing in the Selkirks above Priest Lake (near the Sundance Burn), these are the worst avalanche conditions I have ever seen. And it seems
