AIDS WOLF VS ATHLETIC AUTOMATON Clash of the Life-Force Warriors (Skin Graft) Track one lost me in noise. Track two completely freakin’ had me with its modern punk-flavored vocals. Nasally, check! Indecipherable, check! Perfect, check! But there’s still more to this band. That name is where it’s at-after debut albums, Aids Wolf and Athletic Automaton […]
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Rock Climbing Oregon Adam Bolf and Benjamin Ruef Falcon Guide, 2006, 352 pages. BE GONE COLD and snow! I want to be back outside on real rock. I don’t typically read climbing guide books for fun, but Bolf and Ruef (and friends) authored one fun read. Rock Climbing Oregon has Sylvia and I already planning
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I’VE BEEN WRITING THIS urban outdoors column for about a year now and it is with a heavy heart and a blood alcohol level of .024 that I write this, my last columnfor a while. GROWING UP IN DENMARK, I never dreamed I could be an outdoors writer. When the editors of Out There Monthly
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DEMPSEY ORTEGA KNOWS TRAILS, and how to run them. After all, he grew up running on the National Park Service trails his father helped build as a ranger. These days, Ortega, the head coach of girls’ cross-country at North Central High School says he puts in four to six days a week running the trails
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PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL saw his shadow early last month, which means if he hasn’t done so yet, Old Man Winter will soon release his grip on the Inland Northwest. Once winter lets go, bicyclists will be able to trade in their skis, snowshoes and indoor trainers for the real thing, rubber on the road. This means
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ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON Toxics Coalition, more than 75,000 chemicals have been introduced into the environment in the last 50 years and 74 bodies of water in Washington State are contaminated with persistent chemicals at levels considered harmful. A study by the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, entitled, “Body Burdens of Industrial Chemicals” found a
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ELIZABETH LICHTMAN JUST HAD her bike stolen. “I just hope that someone is using it and getting around on it,” Lichtman says. Clearly she’s not bitter. “I had a nice red Schwinn-old school-a really cool bike I built. I’ve had many bikes stolen. It’s not the first time-in other cities too. It’s a problem in
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If you want to know what’s up with urban cycling you’ve got to talk to folks who put rubber to the road everyday. OTM recently sat down with four bike commuters who are all dedicated to the idea of bicycles as transportation. We got a great roundtable discussion-including some crash stories. Henry Seipp Shadle Park HS
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By Jon Snyder, founding publisher of Out There Monthly – Editorial March 2007 “How the hell do adults ride these things for transportation?” is the first thing I think when I hop on the 20-inch wheel BMX rental bike. Back in Spokane I’m always seeing 20, 30, or even 40 year-old guys hunched up riding
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