For decades, there has been talk of new hiking and mountain biking trails on 5,000-foot-tall Rathdrum Mountain, which rises up from the north edge of the Rathdrum Prairie roughly halfway between Liberty Lake and Coeur d’Alene near Rathdrum, Idaho. With around 540 acres of city-owned land on the mountain, visions for trails began to unfold […]
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Saturday, September 23 is the launch of a new fundraiser event for the Riverside State Park Foundation, with all proceeds going toward park projects and enhancements. This event features your choice of a mountain bike course or run/hike course. Each course features stations with a bean bag toss to earn a poker card at each
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When mountain biking at 20-25 mph, a cyclist travels at 29-36 feet per second, according to a 2016 multiple-agency committee report on a bicycle-grizzly bear collisions near West Glacier, Mont. That’s fast. Stopping 100 yards away, far enough from a bear to initially remain safe before turning around, is difficult on windy trails among thick
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Ever notice that music seems to sound better with an epic view? On September 15-16 a new music festival in Rossland, BC, will use the natural slopes and amphitheater-like setting at the base of Red and Granite Mountains as a backdrop to a variety of Canadian, international, and local acts. “Between the Peaks” music festival
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I’ve done many road trips to British Columbia, because there’s a ton of beauty there, so it’s natural I’m super excited whenever I go. Maybe you noticed I borrowed the words from the well-known phrase, Super, natural British Columbia. Luckily, not much travel time is necessary to experience BC’s super naturalness. The following hikes with
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The Merry Go Round, part of the Merry Creek mountain bike trail network in Castlegar may only be a 1.4k blue trail primarily used for climbing, but the trail should make your BC mountain biking bucket list simply to experience the Cliff Hanger: this 20-foot-high, 60-foot-long bridge hangs from the side of a sheer rock
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If you haven’t biked in Fernie since before the pandemic, there are a few new trails to add to the list. That’s in addition, of course, to the hundreds of miles of other mostly singletrack trails that surround this mountain town just five hours north of Spokane. Roxy Roller is a fun and flowy blue
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In collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, the Loup Loup Ski Bowl on the east slope of the Cascades near Okanogan, Wash., is working to preserve and build over 30 miles of trails around the Loup Loup North Summit in the coming years. The trail project will take place over
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A weekend, fall road trip to the historic mining town of Wallace, Idaho, offers adventures for cyclists, hikers, and history buffs.
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Inland NW mountain-biking coaches created the Bikesaretheanswer.org website for families to learn about regional team and race options.
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