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This Wolf Is Feeling Low: How Much Is Enough When You’ve Missed Your Goal?

Every runner sets a goal with every race they enter. It may be a time, a ranking, or just to catch the person ahead. If ...
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View of the Palouse from the summit of Steptoe Butte.

10 Family Spring & Summertime Adventures in Washington and North Idaho 

Our 4th annual Inland Northwest Family Outdoors Guide provides families of all experience levels with event and activity ideas to maximize your outdoor fun and ...
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Slow, Steady, and Deep: The Far-Reaching Effects of a Mountain Snowpack

The snow is off the roof. Hopefully we are done scraping our windshields. But we can look out and still see snow in the high ...
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Ammi Midstokke: Prep Cooking and Other Pretentious Habits

I have always been wary of preppers. Not the kind that stores seven years of canned pears in their bunkers (they’re a dime a dozen ...
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Photo of the Hukleberry Fun Run participants grouped around an explosion of colored powder.

Editorial: Reasons to Race

Like many runners, I look forward to a new calendar year full of races. A fresh season is a time to reevaluate running goals, find ...
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The Perfect Month: Spokane’s Bike Everywhere in May

If you haven’t even squeezed those skinny, dusty tires yet this spring, your excuses will soon expire. May is Bike Everywhere Month in Spokane, and ...
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Up In The Air: Spokane’s Lofty Zipline Dream

If the idea of flying down the Spokane River gorge, dangling in a harness from a cable, ducking under the Monroe street bridge, and landing ...
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Advice for Anyone on Anything by Ammi Midstokke

Ammi Midstokke is a nutritionist with an arguably-dangerous appetite for adventure. Her monthly “Eatology” nutrition column appears in each print edition of “Out There Outdoors” ...
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Sit on the Bumper and Raise Your Glass

Essay by Kirby Walke about bridging the rural/urban outdoor recreation divide and connecting with others who love the great outdoors.
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