An update and a cool event related to the whitewater park courtesy of Friends of the Falls: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Kayaking Exhibition: 6pm Dinner: 7:30-9:30pm Bitterroot Lodge 21850 E. Bitterroot Lane Liberty Lake Enjoy a live demonstration of whitewater kayaking on the Spokane River and an evening with Gary Lacey, the designer of the […]
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If bikes could sport bumper stickers, a good slogan for this upcoming cycling season would urge us all to “Bike Locally.” Last year it was steep gas prices; this year it is a plunging economy that might have many of us taking a closer look at the backyard trails and other recreational treasures we may
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Expedition To The Edge: Stories Of Worldwide Adventure Lynn Martel Rock Mountain Books, 2008, 345 pages When i first met Lynn Martel at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in the late 1990’s she was chronicling her adventures with friends in the mountains as a reporter for Alberta’s Bow Valley newspapers. Little did I, or she
As a kid growing up in Medical Lake, Washington, Shawn Graves wasn’t much different than his buddies. As a self-described “outdoors type person”, he used to love to to ski, snowmobile, hike and fish. Just about anything that would get him outside. “Now,” he says, “I can’t do anything like that alone for fear of
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Editorial from the print edition of OTM: Am I traitor to the cause of everything outdoors because I like to play video games with my son? At the Outdoor Industry Association breakfast last January I was admonished that video games were some of the biggest competition that outdoor activities faced for kid’s attention. I don’t
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Am I traitor to the cause of everything outdoors because I like to play video games with my son? At the Outdoor Industry Association breakfast last January I was admonished that video games were some of the biggest competition that outdoor activities faced for kid’s attention. I don’t want my kids be the “last children
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By Angie Dierdorff & Jon Snyder DESTINATION races are becoming more and more popular and the Pacific Northest has a bunch of fun ones. Two of the best are right here: Bloomsday and Ironman Coeur d’Alene. But where should you go when you want to race out of town? Use our guide to help pick
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SPOKANE WAS NOT UNLIKE hundreds of other cities and towns at the time that discovered the rivers that ran through them were a tremendous source of waterpower. Now, despite the efforts to harness the river-which Avista Utilities and its predecessor Washington Water Power did a thorough job of by placing a half-dozen dams along its
Forget Me Not Jennifer Lowe-anker Mountaineers Books, 2008, 276 pages ALEX LOWE DIED in an avalanche on the Himalayan peak Shishapangma in 1999 at the age of 41. The same disaster also took the life of fellow expeditioner and filmmaker David Bridges, but spared Alex’s best friend and notable climbing partner Conrad Anker. Alex left
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I try to avoid thinking about the principles of airline flight: a long metal tube with huge mini-rockets riveted under flimsy-looking wings that propel me (and hundreds of others) on an arcing trajectory that can suffer little variance. We’re shot up into the sky; we glide (hopefully) gently down. Sure, the pilot may occasionally bank
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