Why You Should Night Hike During Spring
Hiking after dark heightens your senses and helps you experience nature in new ways. Find ideas and inspiration in this essay by Heidi Lasher.
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Peloton vs. Dog: Pros & Cons of Exercising Indoors
Health & Fitness Dept. article by Heidi Lasher about her struggle choosing indoor cycling over exercising outdoors with her dog.
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Spoken River Event
Cover photo courtesy of Spokane Riverkeeper Get ready for a night of river stories and socializing in this event benefitting our local nonprofit the Spokane Riverkeeper (SRK). At this annual fundraiser, river stories will be shared by local artists in addition to a cocktail and appetizer hour, silent auction, and year in review by the
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Summer Bucket List
85 things to do in the Inland Northwest Cover photo courtesy Shallan Knowles Don’t let summer pass you by: use this roundup of things to do in the mountains, lakes, rivers, trails, and small towns around our beautiful corner of the Northwest. Learn About the Places Where We Play Join one of these educational nature
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3 Fall Hikes in the Channeled Scablands
By Heidi Lasher When I moved to Spokane in 2010, I heard a lot about the ice-age floods. In fact, unsolicited information about the Pleistocene Megafloods would materialize in my life with annoying frequency: on signage along the river, tourist brochures, my kids’ elementary school classrooms. Everywhere I turned, someone seemed to be tapping my
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Fly Fishing Home Waters
A float for reband trout on the Spokane River Ethan began casting with City Hall still in view. On the oars, Marc gazed at the downtown skyline and maneuvered the raft so I could get a good photo. “It’s pretty rare to have this kind of fishing within city limits,” he said. Ethan nodded, watching
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Rafting the Wenatchee River
At high water, the Wenatchee River streaks through the town of Leavenworth like a murmur of starlings. Its water reflects green forests, leafy orchards, and the white-tipped Cascade Mountains to the west. The air feels fresh and lively, sending a shiver of cold and excitement through the throngs of thrill-seekers waiting to launch their boats
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Indoor Cycling Classes in Spokane-CDA
Four Inland NW businesses in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene metro area offer various indoor cycling classes.
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10 Ways to Love Your Public Lands & Waterways
Experience and appreciate America’s public lands and waterways in new ways, with ideas from experts, artists, and conservationists.
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Learning How To Bird
It’s true; I could have lived out my days in birding ignorance. There is no universal obligation to know the names of birds. There are plenty of non-birders out there. But I couldn’t help wondering if there was something wrong with me, some page missing in my book, some memo I failed to read. Maybe bird watching was a natural stage in human development that I was unable to attain.
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