By Linea Jantz Cover photo courtesy of Linea Jantz The siren call of summer: We had a runner drop off our relay team last minute. Anyone want to run? Last year, in this situation, I ran Ragnar Northwest Passage—a road relay of 12 runners, each running three legs, covering over 200 miles from the Peace Arch near the border with […]
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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
By Linea Jantz Cover photo courtesy of Katelyn Scott In July 2025, I attended the inaugural Paint and Paddle overnight canoe camping trip to benefit the Spokane Riverkeeper. The Spokane River thunked softly against the hulls of three Voyager canoes, each 28 feet long with hand-laid fiberglass trimmed with wooden gunwales, built by our guides Big River Canoes. A
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Dialing In Comfort and Control for Rough Gravel Descents By Linea Jantz Cover photo courtesy of Linea Jantz I got my first gravel bike last spring. I have loved the more nimble climbing ability; however, descents I wouldn’t think about twice on my mountain bike wreck my wrists. The breaking (braking?) point was a ride up the dirt roads on Dooley Mountain near
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