There is a common misconception that hydration is only about how much water you drink. While water is a key part of hydration, the true equation is water + electrolytes = hydration. In the midst of this outdoor season, it’s a good time to take a fresh look at your hydration strategy. Electrolytes are mineral […]
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Mosquitoes near the Kettle Falls Day Use and Group Site Campground at Lake Roosevelt have tested positive for West Nile virus. West Nile, which cycles between mosquitoes and birds in nature, is passed on to humans through a mosquito bite. Conditions this summer at Lake Roosevelt have been optimal for mosquitoes, who are drawn to hot,
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I spend weeks looking forward to a taper, but it always comes with the mental anguish of trying not to spend all my free time eating. If carb loading is so popular, why can’t I stock up a week in advance? Of course I use this excuse all winter long, which is why in May
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Two Spokane River focused non-profits, Friends of the Falls and the Spokane River Forum, announced a merger in late April. The merger will see the Spokane River Forum carrying on the work of Friends of the Falls, which included the Conceptual Plan for the Great Spokane River Gorge in 2002. Since then, the overarching goal
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Unless you’ve been living in a media vortex or have no friends, you’ve probably been hearing the raves about bone broth. The claims of its magical powers range from solving impossible math equations to growing entire new limbs. Probably it cures cancer too but, according to my Facebook feed, weed still has the monopoly on
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“Hike it Baby was one of those things in my life that I didn’t know was missing until I found it,” says Spokane mom Carrie Dorrell. Along with her daughter, now two years old, she goes hiking three to five times a week with fellow members of the Spokane branch of Hike It Baby (HiB),
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Catra Corbett has run upward of 120 races of over 100 miles each. She’s one of only a handful of people in the world to have broken the hundred 100-miler barrier – and she runs all those miles mostly on fruit, nuts and plant-based protein shakes. When she started 20 years ago, Corbett says, people
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For thousands of years people have enjoyed the little peninsula upstream from the confluence of Latah Creek and the Spokane River. The name “People’s Park” says a lot about the long history of this place that separates the Spokane River from the downstream reach of Latah Creek (also known as Hangman Creek). People’s Park is
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Clean water makes good coffee. As basic as that sounds, that’s all it took for DOMA Coffee Roasting Company to come up with the design for its “GOOD COFFEE” blend, a mutually beneficial non-profit/business partnership between three regional Waterkeeper organizations (Spokane Riverkeeper, Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper). All three organizations are
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Like many of you, I have been pretending to be gluten intolerant for years. It is only one of the plethora of trendy conditions I randomly pull out of my hat to avoid eating other people’s shitty food. According to various random attempts at scientific journalism, gluten intolerance is something millions of people are mostly
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