Take A Seat Dominic Gill Mainstream, May 2010, 288 pages In June 2006, Dominic Gill set into motion one of the boldest and most creative adventures ever conceived. He decided to ride a tandem bicycle from the northern point of Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina— nearly 20,000 miles—and simply ask for volunteers to […]
Join Grant Wencel, the City’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Coordinator; members from the Bicycle Advisory Board (BAB); and other bicycle enthusiasts this week on a tour of the newly completed downtown bike loop. “The downtown bike loop project is great for Spokane,” says Grant Wencel, “As a City we continue to make significant strides in improving our community
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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
Spokane residents learned in 2010 of a change coming to their water utility bills and many instantly assumed the worst: rate hikes from the city to balance a discouraging budget shortfall. In fact, the purpose of the changes in water rate structure implemented this year is revenue neutral—meaning there is no increase in the amount
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Every year we gather together to share information about what is happening in outdoor recreation in our “near nature near perfect” Spokane. It is just to hard to attend all of the meetings for all of the wonderful outdoor organizations that help support recreation in Spokane so we bring everyone together for a quick report.
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Even with gas at nearly four bucks a gallon, it may be worth driving north of the border just for a meal at the Pepperbox Bistro in Salmo, B.C. But, after all, this is the Kootenays, and there are enough year-round outdoor adventures to enjoy within about 30 miles in any direction from downtown Salmo.
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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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While Hawaiians have long known the joy of stand up paddle surfing, also known as “beach boy surfing,” freshwater fans in the Inland Northwest have only recently been enjoying the sport of stand up paddling (SUP). Although Hawaiians get the credit for developing the modern sport of SUP, it actually descended from the styles of
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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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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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