This weekend is the Mountain Gear-sponsored UClimb event at Q’uemlin Riverside Park. Learn to climb in a comfortable small-group setting with other amateur climbers. Professional instructors will guide you through the basics of climbing, safety and conservation. For more information including pricing (various packages are available), call Mountain Gear at (509) 325-9000 or click here.
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With car-free camping, adventure begins when you leave your front door. Here are 5 Spokane-area destinations to arrive by bike, bus, or hike.
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Over the last few years, local chef and endurance cyclist David Blaine has hosted a loosely-organized midnight century bike ride. The ride leaves Brown’s Addition at midnight on a warm summer night. Until last year, the route was an all-paved route that took riders out to Liberty Lake and over the hills of the Palouse.
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This summer marks my third anniversary as your loyal WYG columnist, and though I’ve enjoyed interviewing our local gearheads to share their tips, I will now be moving on to other OTM features. I could lie and say I wrote the column for so long in order to gain interviewing experience, or purely for the
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The groundbreaking ceremony of the Centennial Trail in 1989 marked a new chapter for spokane recreation, and a new vision for most of the Spokane River. The freshly paved ribbon of asphalt, albeit incomplete, initiated a swell in jogging, Rollerblading and bike riding in the Spokane area. In the same year as the Tiananmen Square
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It took a while to crunch the numbers but the Bike to Work Spokane results are in: For that reason we are recognizing teams in each category that recruited the highest percentage of new commuters, as well as high mileage totals. Unlike Commute Challenges in some other cities, we count biking for other transportation besides
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By Mark Earley & Paul Trautman Had anyone told me that I would run, bike and force march the better part of 8hrs and 22minutes, in the heat and dryness of July, AND have fun, I would have told them; “Fat chance—you have got to be kidding me!” But 8hrs and 22minutes later that is
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The second day in Iran was the worst for me. It started with a poor choice of clothes. My yellow, shear, short-sleeved vintage shirt with mother-of-pearl buttons is one of my favorite warm weather shirts. But I didn’t realize how see-through it was until I wore it in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where men
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They say that with the Seattle Sounders, the world’s game has come to Washington, but soccer is not the only “new” sport in the region. Spokane TrailQuest, formed in fall of 2007, has brought Mountain Bike Orienteering to the Northwest. This bike scavenger hunt event is popular in Europe and around the world, but so
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Triathalon Revolution Terri Schneider Mountaineers Books, 2009, 301 pages Triathletes are A breed apart; especially those athletes who aren’t satisfied to survive but must excel at three very different athletic pursuits. Most don’t realize the modern day triathalon didn’t exist until 1974—and the first announcement read “bring your own bicycle.” In Triathalon Revolution, Terri Schneider
