Similar to many Montana natives, Drew Stoecklein started skiing when he was just 2 years old. Since then he’s diverged from the pack and become one of the country’s top Big Mountain Freeskiiers. “I grew up ski racing my entire life,” he says. “But every ski race I was the kid out there jumping off […]
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Rick Brown was just a kid with a skateboard. Being born and raised in Spokane the hobby lead to snowboarding, and now 20 years later he’s the director of skiing and snowboarding at 49 Degrees North. “At the time I never really thought of making it a career,” he says. “Snowboarding was sort of a
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Autumn is the season best savored perhaps by creative writers, bird watchers and carefree nature lovers. Nineteenth-century writer William Cullen Bryant referred to this season as “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and novelist Albert Camus said, “Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.” Crisp mornings with frost, clothed in layers for
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The Fat Tire Trail Riders Club will be building intermediate-level wood features for the Beacon Hill skills park this week. Help ’em out! Wed. August 26, 10AM – 2PM Saturday August 29, 8AM – 1PM Sunday August 30, 1PM- 6PM Meet at the Skills Park in Camp Sekani. Bring work gloves and tools (shovel, Hammer/small
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Last month’s National Veterans Wheelchair Games gave Spokane the national spotlight on wheelchair athletics. According to hometown athletes, wheelchair sports have had a great local scene long before the recent event rolled into town. “I never knew what a paraplegic was until I became one,” said Brent King, Cheney resident and veteran games participant. In
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With spring now officially here, despite the lingering snow drifts, it might be time to start looking for the wildlife returning to the area. One great way to do just that? Bird watching. Meet Lindell Haggin, treasurer of Audubon Society. A bird watcher since 1970, Haggin has served the Audubon Society in several official positions,
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Talk about loving what you do and doing what you love: frustrated by having to drive to Spokane or mail order his kayak and climbing gear, John Crock started Hyperspud Sports, an outdoor gear store in Moscow, ID, originally selling equipment out of his own house. Twenty years and a signed lease later, Crock says,
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RIDING YOUR BIKE in the winter can be a lot of fun. Like any other winter activity, fun starts turning to misery and suffering quickly when you get cold. If you go fast, you are generating a higher wind chill. When you climb or otherwise work hard you are heating up and likely sweating. If
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MEET 14-YEAR-OLD JESSE LEWIS: “They call me ‘little Bode’ because I either get on the podium or fall trying to get there,” he says. “Last year I didn’t get to do much racing because in my first race I crashed and sprained my ankle, so I’m hoping this year I can get back in the
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Fall is in the air, and while that makes most of us want to curl up next to a cozy fire, it invokes a different response from Spokane’s Eddie Isakson. “I feel it getting colder and I keep thinking, ‘I can’t wait to go camping,’” he says. That’s right, Isakson is an avid snow camper.
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