Photos courtesy of Syringa Cyclery. Gravel grinder. Gravel gran fondo. Gravel ride. Whatever you call it, the ¾ Minus Cykeltur is Sandpoint, Idaho’s own two-wheeled spring tour of the less-traveled, mostly gravel backroads. Set for Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 10 a.m., the start and end of this timed gravel ride put on by Sandpoint’s […]
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After 13 years, SpokeFest, an annual community biking event focused on individuals and families riding bikes, dissolved the organization this past January. To continue the legacy, the SpokeFest board turned all remaining funds over to the Spokane Parks Foundation to continue supporting Summer Parkways, a former SpokeFest event and Spokane’s largest block party where community
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We were about two miles into a gritty climb toward a remote lake in Montana. The older, faster kids had gotten carried away with a very loosely organized “parkour” competition. Anyone would be surprised at how gymnastically capable they were under the weight of fully-loaded backpacks, hopping over boulders and streaking through the undergrowth. In
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Summer Parkways is back in 2023 in the Manito/Comstock neighborhood on Spokane’s South Hill. Join in the fun at this annual gathering of bikes, skateboards, rollerblades, other human-powered vehicles, and pedestrians taking over the streets on summer solstice evening on Wednesday, June 21 (6-9 p.m.). In past years for Summer Parkways, family, friends, and neighbors from
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Although road bike registrations have decreased over the years, the interest in gravel rides and races has only climbed. Capitalizing on this trend, two long-time regional road rides have added gravel routes, and a new gravel race near Sandpoint is set for this fall. Lilac Century’s New Gravel Leg May 21 The Lilac Century Ride
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Summer festival season is right around the corner, and this just might be the most plush camp or concert chair ever. Plus, there will be no chance of losing track of your seat after a disorienting trip to the porta-potties. You probably know ENO best for their hammocks, and they’ve put those design skills to
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Readers of the January-February edition of Out There were treated to a look back at Spokane’s bicycle racing heyday, courtesy of the “Everyday Cyclist” column and longtime Spokane cyclist Patrick Bulger, host of the Packfiller podcast. While Spokane’s road racing scene is not what it once was, there is plenty to be optimistic about despite
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Featured Runner: Robin Moritz A number of years ago, Robin’s daughter started training for running. Jokingly, Robin asked her to find her the sticker that said 0.0. “That’s how I felt about running,” says Robin. Then, when her grandson arrived and she would take care of him, she felt exhausted and couldn’t keep up with him. “I wanted to
Shortly after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enhanced several portions of Riverside State Park, the 7 Mile Airfield was used as a practice field during WWII for American pilots who would later be landing and taking off on atolls in the Pacific. The retired airfield is about a kilometer wide and two kilometers long, and
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