A Mile In Her Boots: Women Who Work In The Wild Jennifer Bové, Editor Solas House, 2006, 296 pages. After reading A Mile in Her Boots, I may never again complain about my aching back after a hard day at the laptop. For the women who contributed to this compilation of true stories, “going to […]
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Lately, people in downtown Spokane have been stopping me on the street to ask how the urban outdoorsperson should vote in this month’s election. “Hey,” the curious voter will often say, “can I have some money to buy a forty or some crystal meth?” “Good question,” I’ll say. “So what you’re really asking is about
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By Derrick Knowles, Juliet Sinisterra, & Jon Snyder We’ve compiled five of the coolest outdoor jobs in the Inland Northwest (and one of the worst). Each of these individuals get to spend time outside on a daily basis and get paid for it–we think that is pretty cool. A lot of them are also making
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Take a few road bikes, add a looped hiking trail, preferably one with a few logs across it or short, steep hills, and mix it all together with some drunken pre-WWII Frenchmen who aren’t ready to give up on the summer cycling season, and you have the invention of cyclocross. As local cyclocross competitor Jake
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The staid image of “Aprés ski” activities-a round of hot drinks around the fireplace at the ski lodge following a day on the slopes, often while still in skiing attire-is getting made over; at many of today’s ski resorts, visitors can have a good time without ever having to don a pair of ski boots
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Density can be a hard sell. Congestion, hardscape and pollution come to mind when most people think about highly populated urban environments. A lot of people see the single-family residence as a cornerstone of our society. Since WWII our cities, our lot sizes and our homes have been expanding-and, further away from each other. Right
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Decades ago I met a man who claimed to have leaped from a truck and knifed dead a fleeing deer. A steep slope slowed the animal and leveled the killing field. How I admired that guy. Even today, conventional wisdom about the sport of hunting will tell you it pits human wits against beastly wiles
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In October I had the opportunity to give bike tour of Spokane trails to Ben Gettleman and Heather Deutsch, two visiting directors from the National Rails to Trails Conservancy. At OTM we spend a lot of time banging our heads against the wall trying to convince folks of the importance of everything from bike lanes
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