What To Know Before Backpacking With Your Dog
5 health and safety issues for backpacking with your dog, plus tips that apply to any day-hike or trail-outing with a pet companion.
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Super Photo Spots
Outdoor experiences make life worth living, and our area is rich with lakes and mountains to enjoy. While the challenges or the motivations vary, there is no shortage of inspirational landscapes to appreciate. Whether you’re a biker, hiker or paddler, you probably bring along your camera to document your outings. Outdoor photography connects people in
Trail Work Volunteers Needed Liberty Lake
Trail work is very rewarding. Every time you hike a trail you have worked on you take pride in a job well done. Here is the option to work on Sat or Sun or spend an evening camping in a beautiful Cedar Grove. To sign up for either or both go to: wta.org/volunteer/trail-work-parties Check out
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Roadtrip: Spring’s The Time For Palouse Falls
Inland northwest residents talk about the Missoulian Floods like they’re a story out of the Bible—most people even call them “The Great Floods.” Fifteen thousand years ago, glacial floods rerouted rivers, carved out ravines, and created new lakes from Lake Missoula to the Columbia River. The floods left our region punctuated by the Channeled Scablands,
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Epic Rides: 8 Bike Treks You Can Conquer
From a lunchtime escape to a months-long journey, we sought out the toughest, most breathtaking and the craziest rides for Northwest riders to attempt.
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OTM Annual Cycling Calendar 2011
THE INLAND NORTHWEST just finished another winter that bode well for cyclists with minimal snow on the valley floors and enough in the mountains for cross-country and downhill skiing, providing plenty of opportunity to get and stay fit for the cycling season. To take full advantage of that winter induced fitness, or to give you some motivation
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What’s Your Gear? TeriTucker:Triathlon Mom
If you’ve ever seen a woman biking around Spokane while towing two kids in a bike trailer, then you may have seen Teri Tucker on a training ride. She completed her first triathlon on April 10, 2004—a “mini-tri” at the old downtown YMCA, organized by the co-founders of Team Blaze, Scott and Tristin Roy. “They
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Editorial: Stubbornness
What do my six-year-old daughter and boosters of the Spokane River Whitewater Park have in common? They’re both pretty stubborn. When I was recently teaching my daughter to ski she took a good tumble and got a face full of snow. Her cheeks were red, her skis came off and I asked her if she
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Yurts: Different Kind Of Winter Escape
An Inland Nw Round Hut Travel Guide It’s February, and you’re itching to hit the road for an outdoor adventure. But sometimes in the colder, drearier months, the thought of packing up all of your gear—tent, rain fly, shovel, sleeping bag and pad, cook stove, propane, food, utensils, firewood, etc.—hauling it through deep snow, and
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What’s Your Gear?: Tom Schaaf, Nordic Skiing
It’s a clever routine. Alpine ski during the middle of the week when the throngs and masses of people are about their daily routines. Then Nordic ski on the weekends, when the slopes are busy and the backcountry is begging to be explored. Tom Schaaf played this game of leapfrog throughout his years in Spokane
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