May 2026

Salewa Puez 2 Mid Hiking Boot

Leave a Comment / Gear Reviews, Gear Room, Get Out There / By Derrick Knowles

These hiking boots are built for wet conditions and snow-packed trails, making them a great choice for spring hikes here in the Inland Northwest, where high-mountain trails can hold snow well into summer. Featuring an abrasion-resistant mid-cut upper, external toe cap and full rubber strip covering the sole joint, Salewa went the extra mile to make these boots waterproof, breathable and immune to the elements. The traction is also […]

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Some Ultras Are Better Than Others

Leave a Comment / Get Out There, Last Page, Running / By Ammi Midstokke

By Ammi Midstokke Cover photo courtesy of Ammi Midstokke Tucked into the folds of the North Cascades, in the Methow Valley, rests a little town between some other little towns, all of them simultaneously celebrating their charm while hoping to remain undiscovered. Home to what is arguably the nation’s best cross-country skiing in winter, the foothills and surrounding mountains

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If You Love Spring Outdoors, You Love Birds

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By Madonna Luers Cover photo courtesy of Tom Munson Birds surround us all year in the great outdoors of the Inland Northwest. That’s what makes birdwatching—or “birding” with both your eyes and ears—so wildly popular and easy. But spring is prime birding time because species that spent the winter farther south are migrating back to or through our

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Survival as Revival

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Remembering the Wild Thread of Women in a Survival Retreat By Alana Livingston Cover photo courtesy of Alana Livingston I arrived at Prater Mountain Ranch with a tent, a notebook and the vague expectation that I would learn how to survive in the woods. Knife skills. Fire. Shelter. Useful things. What I didn’t expect was to remember something far older—something

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NEATO BURRITO

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By Alana Livingston Cover photo courtesy of Alana Livingston The burrito is one of the earliest examples of a transportable meal. Long before packaged foods and modern convenience items, wrapping a complete meal inside a flour tortilla allowed people to carry nourishment without plates, utensils or extra containers. That simple structure has kept the burrito relevant for

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Art For Nature Vanessa Swenson on Motherhood, Painting and Maintaining a State of Awe

Leave a Comment / Get Out There, Out There Spotlight / By Lisa Laughlin

By Lisa Laughlin Cover photo courtesy of Clarin J Her fireweed painting spoke to me first. The color and detail made me recall some of my favorite backcountry memories of walking trails framed by the bright pink wildflower. I bought a print for my home from the Wildland Co-op, excited to look more into the

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Every Living Thing

Leave a Comment / Columns, Get Out There, Literation / By Ammi Midstokke

By Ammi Midstokke People are always recommending science books and memoirs to me, which is a bit misguided because I like to consider myself a classics kind of reader. I believe having slogged my way through “Moby Dick” gives me bookish street cred. Recently, someone handed me a copy of Jason Roberts’ “Every Living Thing,” and

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Bringing Back the Wild

Leave a Comment / Columns, Get Out There, Nature / By Adam Gebauer

By Adam Gebauer Cover photo courtesy of Adam Gebauer There are now Canadian lynx kits learning to hunt snowshoe hares in the Kettle Range. Lynx were mostly gone from this region due to overhunting and loss of habitat, but the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, working with many partners, have reestablished breeding populations of this elusive cat.

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Underbrush Gum

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By Linea Jantz Cover photo courtesy of Linea Jantz As a true Nature scientist, I once convinced seven children to grab gobs of pine pitch off a tree and pop them in our mouths because I had read that many Native tribes used to chew tree sap as gum. I don’t think pine was one of the tree

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