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49’s Nordic Center Offers XC, Snowshoe, & Fat Bike Trails 

Cover photo courtesy of 49 Degrees North The incredible Nordic Center at 49 Degrees North offers groomed trails for classic and skate Nordic skiing and trails for snowshoers and fat bikes, as well as rental gear and lessons. The center is open this season Friday-Sunday and holidays from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., and trails are

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Exploring Leavenworth’s Cross-country Ski Trails  

By Claire Thompson  Cover photo courtesy Xander Demetrios Nordic skiing has always felt to me like the best winter version of hiking or trail running—human-powered ways of moving through nature that combine physical challenge with space for meditative stillness.   If you’re visiting Leavenworth on a winter weekend, stillness is something you might need. For all

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Spokane’s Bluff Trails: The Good, the Bad, and the Opportunities 

Cover photo courtesy of The Friends of the Bluff The Good: Surprisingly few people seem to know about the 600 acres of ponderosa forests and bunchgrass meadows that border the western edge of Spokane’s South Hill. With about 20 miles of trails, 500 feet of elevation gain, sweeping views of the western sky, and no

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Explore the Trails, Waters and Wilds of Oroville, Washington 

Find off-the-beaten-path adventures in north-central Washington.  Oroville locals refer to their small town of around 2,000 just south of the Canadian Border in north central Washington as the “gold at the end of the road,” a nod to its location at the end of US Hwy 97 and its gold mining history. Situated at the

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Epic Trails and Authentic Mountain Culture Await in Nelson, B.C. 

By Peter Moynes  Cover photo by Lindsay Donovan courtesy of Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism I met Jason and Alice in the Morning Mountain parking lot, just outside of Nelson, British Columbia. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon in mid-June. The two had just finished riding Blue Steel, and with wide eyes and wider grins, they

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Woman mountain biking around the corner of a forested dirt trail.

New MTB Trails Coming to Rathdrum Mountain

For decades, there has been talk of new hiking and mountain biking trails on 5,000-foot-tall Rathdrum Mountain, which rises up from the north edge of the Rathdrum Prairie roughly halfway between Liberty Lake and Coeur d’Alene near Rathdrum, Idaho. With around 540 acres of city-owned land on the mountain, visions for trails began to unfold

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Close-to-the-Border BC Trails with Views

I’ve done many road trips to British Columbia, because there’s a ton of beauty there, so it’s natural I’m super excited whenever I go. Maybe you noticed I borrowed the words from the well-known phrase, Super, natural British Columbia. Luckily, not much travel time is necessary to experience BC’s super naturalness. The following hikes with

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