THE BRADBURY PRESS The Front (self-released) You can separate this Seattle band from the current trash-heap of country-fied rock bands by virtue of some nice songwriting and a tremendous lead vocalist by the name of Darren Golden. Golden sounds like some sort of alt-country Eddie Vedder leading a band that draws equal inspiration from Lucinda […]
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Kayaking Made Easy, 3rd Ed. Dennis Stuhaug Falcon, 2006, 264 pages. This is a carefully and lovingly written review of all aspects of sea kayaking from choosing a boat to navigating and even sailing a kayak. Many of us have asked ourselves the question, usually when things are not going as planned: “Why can’t this
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Recently I was challenged by a poet in Lycra bike shorts to write an entire column about bicycling without making fun of the way people look in Lycra bike shorts (which, by the way, I believe should be regulated no less strenuously than, say, automatic handguns-with permits, 5-day waiting periods and restrictions on public display.)
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Camping is one of those simple, all-American activities that’s gotten way too complicated in our high-speed, high-tech modern world. Gear is great for getting you out for a safe and satisfying adventure into the wild, but you don’t need a Patagonia shopping spree or even a Cabela’s catalogue to outfit yourself for an old-school camping
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Welcome to a new feature where we ask some of the best outdoor athletes in the region what equipment they use for their favorite sports. This issue we feature North Idaho off-road tri phenom, Brandyn ROARK Gray, who is working hard to make the jump to full-time sponsored athlete in Xterra series triathlons. She supervises
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Hovering seventy feet above the “Going-to-the-Sun Road” and grasping onto a garden hose bolted to the rock wall, we slowly walked forward with our toddler perched on my husband’s back. We knew she wouldn’t remember her first backpacking trip in Glacier National Park, but we wanted to complete an overnight hike, and we knew it
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Can big-box retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and Bed Bath & Beyond coexist in a small rural town, with a declining, but architecturally significant city center? The City of Ellensburg hopes so. In the Spring of 2005, the City set out to reevaluate its Comprehensive Plan when a single owner with 70 acres of land
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Climber Marty Bland has a dream; An urban public climbing park underneath the old Sunset Highway Bridge. “You could get a pro-climber to set the holds and have hundreds of routes beneath the arches at a variety of grades,” says Bland. “A lot of cities are doing stuff like that these days.” He’s right. Seattle
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