Editorial
Crane Season
Some people see the word crane and think migration; others think construction. Spring time brings about a lot of changes, not just seasonal changes with ...
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Spokane’s Urban Outdoors
Early spring, when the weather can sometimes make just about everything you enjoy doing outside impractical, is a great time of year to start thinking ...
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Out There What?
Maybe you noticed the name change we snuck into this latest issue. It’s certainly not huge, but we figured we’d better explain. Two years ago ...
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Gear We Love
There is a worn, scratched, and cobweb-covered SMC ice axe that’s been hanging in one of my gear caves or another for over a decade. ...
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Alive
Autumn in the mountains means nature is restless and an endless summer can easily end on a moment’s notice with a snow storm ushering in ...
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Road Trip 2024
Unity, Oregon, was deserted, except for the lone old man on the porch of a ramshackle building who tipped his hat in my direction as ...
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Where the Blacktop Ends
One extra-long Labor Day weekend, my brother Scott and I unexpectedly drove nearly 1,000 miles in three days, hiking, camping, and wandering at will across ...
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Bears Ears or Bust
Getting lost on the way to the trailhead was the first sign that this wasn’t going to be your typical Utah spring break backpacking trip. ...
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What the River Says
The night after celebrating my son’s second birthday along the swift, milky-emerald current of the Spokane River, a bout of insomnia had me phone surfing ...
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