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Best Family Bike Rides: These Inland NW Trails Are Great for Kids of All Ages
Biking as a family has never been easier. From bike trailers that hold two children and toddler balance bikes to trail-a-bikes and child-bike seats, there ...
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Spring and Summer Camps and Outdoor Programs for Children and Families
Kids enjoy learning about nature and science and participating in outdoor sports and recreation. They thrive in the outdoors, whether it’s trekking along a trail ...
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Flower Petals
Spring’s anticipation leads to delusional expectations of woodland bounty before the ground has thawed. Foragers and chefs start calling in March inquiring about items for ...
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Cultivating an Adventure State of Mind
Even as a little girl I loved adventures and never minded getting muddy. Growing up on a small farm, I had lots of open space ...
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Wenaha River Trail (Blue Mountains, Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness)
For years I ignored the lonely Blue Mountains in favor of forever heading north for hiking and backpacking fun. Fortunately, I recently came to my ...
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Biking Betties: Mountain Bike Group Gets More Women Riders Out on Area Trails
Jaime Rees handles her mountain bike like a professional downhill mountain bike racer. Because she is one. Penny Schwyn is a certified mountain bike coach ...
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Caution: Pine Needles May be Sharper than They Appear
Our 11-month old son bounced happily in his pack as we hiked along the Bluff. I have spent countless hours biking the trails off of ...
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The R in Washington is Silent
“Pronunciation question: Does ‘Iller’ Creek rhyme with ‘miller’ or ‘miler’?” That’s the unassuming question I posted on Facebook last fall, and it was the moment ...
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People’s Park: An Oasis of Nature Near Downtown Spokane
For thousands of years people have enjoyed the little peninsula upstream from the confluence of Latah Creek and the Spokane River. The name “People’s Park” ...
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