April 2023

Sandpoint’s 3/4 Minus Cykeltur gravel ride is back for 2023

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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SpokeFest Legacy Lives On

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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The Biggest Block Party of the Summer – June 21, 2023

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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Local Road Racing Not Going Gently Into That Good Night

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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Person mountain biking along a dirt trail at Riverside State Park, with forest in the near distance.

New Drinking Fountain at Riverside’s 7 Mile Airfield

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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