By Jean Arthur During a recent river trip, my paddle partner lit our evenings with a solar-powered Luci light string. The 18-foot cord with 20 LED lights providing 100 lumens is durable, lightweight and water resistant. I was amazed that one day when we forgot to leave Luci in the sun, it still lit up—we got […]
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A great pair of all-around adventure pants, these stretchy, DWR-coated (for water resistance) nylon britches are packed with features that come in handy out in the wild. Reinforced knee panels ensure added durability while communing with Mother Nature, whether you’re hunting for mushrooms on all fours or crawling around blowing on a campfire. A water-resistant
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Soaking up the fall colors in the Kettle Range. Photo: Aaron Theisen There’s nothing like an autumn hike to spark your senses. There is the dazzling colors of fall foliage; the contrast of warm sun on your shoulders and crisp air in your lungs; the rich scent of fallen leaves in a damp, dark forest;
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(Selkirk Mountains, North Idaho) Hughes Fork and Jackson Creek share a trailhead near Hughes Meadows in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. Each can be a stand-alone day hike for visitors to nearby Priest Lake, remaining low to enjoy the old growth forest’s lingering huckleberry patches in September or fall mushroom season as rains return in
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By Tabitha Gregory Beginning this fall, a collaboration between Gonzaga’s Center for Climate, Society and the Environment and the university’s Center for Lifelong Learning will offer an online Climate Certificate Program. This program is among the first of its kind in the U.S. and seeks to arm community members—professionals and volunteers—with a way to build
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For millennia, seasons in the Inland Northwest were marked by salmon moving through our waterways and creating symbiotic and sustaining relationships with the local ecosystem. A keystone species for the INW, salmon have been cut off from some of their historic habitat in the Upper Columbia Basin for more than 100 years. But the Upper
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My elk hunting trips are often filled with walking and biking miles and miles behind closed gates, followed by bushwhacking down canyons and up the sides of mountains until dark. And all that sweaty work requires a jacket that can multitask for chilly mornings, stormy high-country afternoons, and pitch-black walks back to camp. Enter the
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THIS BACKCOUNTRY BOOTY IS SPONSORED BY: TorQ Personal Training TORQ Personal Training has donated two weeks of personal training, up to 3x per week. The semi-private sessions are limited to a small number of people and each workout is custom designed to target where you’d like to target The gym is located on Sprague and
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By Tanya Riordan Not long ago, the Columbia-Snake River Basin was the most prolific salmon-producing landscape in the continental United States.Dozens of populations across this great basin, however, have been driven to extinction. Today in the Snake River, the Columbia River’s largest tributary, less than 1% of the historic keystone species—salmon and steelhead—return each year
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