Play the OTM Backcountry Booty scavenger hunt contest and you get to explore different trails around the region and possibly win gift certificates for cool outdoor gear and other prizes from local businesses like Mountain Gear. Here’s how it works: 1. We hide a booty certificate, that’s good for whatever prizes are up for grabs, […]
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I run and ride my bike along the Spokane River often, and I float and swim in it as many times as I can each summer. Yet, I must admit, it’s a rare day when I slow down enough and take the time to really think about that ribbon of water that snakes through our
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Formerly the Spokane River Canoe Classic, this community paddling event has been reborn as the Spokane River Classic. Pick your watercraft and get ready to paddle the serene waters above downtown Spokane with your friends and family August 23. The Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club has partnered with the Spokane River Forum and others to
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On hot summer days, hundreds of people float, raft, and swim in the Spokane River. Yet the question still lingers. Just how safe is it to swim in Spokane’s beautiful but once heavily polluted river? “The more that people play on the river, the more they’re likely to protect it and think about what they’re
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To add to the caravans of rafts, inner tubes and half-racks of Coors Light that parade down the Spokane River on hot summer days, ROW Adventures has begun offering more upscale craft-beer themed floats complete with an ice-packed keg of locally brewed beer. ROW has hosted regular happy hour floats for several years, but this
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5:30 AM never looked so dismal. Determined and unaware of the calamity of the outdoors, I had woken up for (yet another) of those Northwest winter runs. The kind where you stand in your closet debating whether you need three or four layers then check your headlamp to make sure the batteries are going to
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You will help restore the riparian area, improve habitat for fish, enhance water quality, and make for an aesthetically pleasing water trail access and bike ride along Centennial Trail. Date: October 18th and 19th Location:State Line off Seltice Way. Directions online. Volunteer Times: Friday: Noon – 4 pm Saturday: 9 am – Noon, 1 – 4
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Floating the Spokane River during the hottest days of summer has long been a favored pastime for generations of locals—blow up the big, fat tubes, load up the cooler and the car and go. This process got much easier—no more figuring out tube transport and a shuttle system—thanks to Jon Wilmot and his company, FLOW
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We ask that people who have not served as team leaders in previous years attend an orientation meeting on the evening of Wednesday, September 28, at 6 PM, at the headquarters of Mountain Gear, so that you can learn our system. Dinner will be served at the meeting.
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Shame on you if you missed the Spokane River Kickoff at Corbin Park in Post Falls this past weekend.
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