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Lake Wildlife: What’s that Bird?
Besides mallard ducks and Canada geese, here are other bird species you’re likely to see while paddling or boating around lakes in Eastern Washington and ...
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Miles of Opportunity: Gravel Riding in West-central Idaho
Andrew Mentzer, Executive Director of the West Central Mountains Economic Development Council (WCMEDC) and local adventure cyclist Dave Beck pedal south and then west out ...
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Editorial: Make it to the Lake this Summer
My New Year’s resolution a few years ago was to swim in a new lake each week during the months of July and August. That’s ...
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Eatology: Why We Don’t Eat What We Know We’re Supposed to Eat
It would appear that most of us are relatively intelligent and informed. We can do any number of things facilitated by the use of our ...
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In It for the Long Run: Triathlete in Need of Heart Transplant Keeps Competing
Triathletes know how to suffer. They compete in high temps and high winds, and through intestinal distress, heat exhaustion, and debilitating cramps. Pat Johnson knows ...
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A Sea of Red in a World of Ice
Each spring a striking transformation takes place on mountain glaciers and snowfields across the Pacific Northwest. Large swaths of the bright, highly reflective snowpack that ...
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Run Wild: Why Race?
On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend I completed a new-to-me feat: back to back half marathons (Windermere and Coeur d’Alene), with just a week ...
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Editorial: Intentions, Ambitions, and Travel-worthy Missions
Many New Year’s resolutions start in January and are discarded like an old sweater by May. But as the summer season officially launches in June, ...
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Time to Change Your Mind
What if there was a nonhabit forming natural compound that in clinical trials effectively treats anxiety, PTSD, OCD, depression, trauma and addiction? What if it ...
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