As soon as the last of the winter snow is finally gone from Mount Spokane, the mountain comes alive with a smorgasbord of edible mushrooms, wild berries, and wild plants. Over the years, I have taken a lot of people out into the woods on wild edible forays. Some were new to foraging and wanted to […]
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The Spokane Valley Cycle Celebration is one of the largest gatherings of the biking enthusiasts in the Inland Northwest each summer. Hosted by Valleyfest, the 2023 Cycle Celebration is set for Sunday, July 30 at Mirabeau Point Park in Spokane Valley. This family-fun event is an excellent way for bike riders and their families to
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The high water floating/rafting season runs from the first week of June through the first week of July. Travel time from the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene area ranges from 2.5-3.5 hours depending on the route you take. Where to Go: What to Bring
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In 1973, Alice Hostetter began organizing a weekly Tuesday morning bicycle ride with a few other women in the Spokane Valley. Soon, their group grew from a handful to a dozen. More rides were organized, and before long, the Spokane Bicycle Club was born. To celebrate the club’s 50th Anniversary this September, its members will
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In 2008, two brothers named Ben and Bart Orth created the Inland Northwest’s first overnight relay run, the Spokane to Sandpoint Relay (S2S). The standard 2-day, 12-person, 36-leg race format was popularized by Portland’s Hood to Coast, and S2S sought to bring the same unique style of event to Spokane. The original course started atop
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(Sponsored post) A Spokane Memorial Weekend tradition, the 24 Hours of Riverside mountain bike race and mass mountain biker campout at Riverside State Park continues its renaissance Saturday and Sunday May 27-28, 2023. After a change of hands and COVID pause, new race organizers Patrick Bulger and Eric Ewing are psyched to keep the evolution
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Shortly after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enhanced several portions of Riverside State Park, the 7 Mile Airfield was used as a practice field during WWII for American pilots who would later be landing and taking off on atolls in the Pacific. The retired airfield is about a kilometer wide and two kilometers long, and
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Sponsored Article Situated at the edge of the Palouse and the Columbia River Plateau, Spokane boasts an ideal landscape for road biking, with expansive flat terrain and a myriad of mellow hills—and plenty of not-so-mellow ones if you’re looking to test your V02 max. From bustling, paved bike paths to rolling Palouse backroads, we’ve highlighted
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I’m going to say it: Spokane is a, if not THE, Bike Town. Before you even start to turn the page, let me stop you. I know what you’re thinking. “Bike Town?!? I can’t even get from the South Hill to Hillard without somebody hurtling an insult at me about getting off the road and
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Monday, January 16, 2023, is an historic day in Spokane’s Riverside State Park. Thanks to generous donations from the Riverside State Park Foundation and the Friends of Spokane House, the park is hosting a Winter Quarters Event with emphasis on the year 1810, the year the fur trading post was founded. When it was initially
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