Artist Bradd Skubinna has a terrific new show at the Lorinda Knight Gallery in downtown Spokane. What’s that have to do with OTM? The big construction on the south wall of the gallery is made up almost entirely of white straps from bundles of Out There Monthly. It’s amazing. Check it out; the show will […]
Backpacking in Glacier National Park’s wilderness requires careful planning. Learn about a 4-day itinerary in the Belly River area.
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It’s our four-year anniversary. Here’s a list I like to call, “OTM Articles That Got the Biggest Reader Response—Good and Bad—From Our First Four Years.” In reverse order of impact: 7. “The Best Local Rocks You’ve Never Climbed,” a cover story by in our September 2006 issue is still our most requested back issue. The
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The what club? Yes, the name will make you pause. Who would call themselves that and what kind of people are they? It turns out the Fucking Bike Club, or FBC for short, is not a rebellious group of antisocial youths intent on destruction. Rather it’s a social event attended by people from a wide
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BLACK KIDS Partie Traumatic (Columbia) If all debut full-lengths followed this formula, the (music) world would be such a better place. The “formula” here is, well, anything but formulaic, as the much-buzzed about Black Kids simply create infectious gems one after another. It’s interesting at every turn, and never dull. It avoids those first-album pitfalls, and
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From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at The Tour de France David Walsh Ballantine Books, 2007, 334 pages Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong: doper. Deposed 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis: doper. The bulk of the professional peloton: dopers. Such is the impression readers will likely take from
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David Blaine, local chef and cyclist, recently returned from competing in the Great Divide Mountain Bike Race, an endurance race in which the riders are self-supported along a 2,490-mile course from Canada to Mexico. Imagine: You are 140 miles from the next place you’ll see another person, and you’re confident that the bike you’re riding
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5 years ago, Grant Petersen, owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works in Walnut Creek, California, wrote a short piece called “The Underbike.” The essay described how riding a bike unfit for a given ride could make the ride more rewarding. For example, riding a mountain bike on a century ride and keeping up with the road
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