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Hike of the Month: North Fork Silver Creek Trail (Abercrombie Mountain, Colville N.F.)
Save the easy approach to Abercrombie Mountain for summer. Once fall arrives, the long, 14-mile, roundtrip version gives hikers ample time to savor the spectacular ...
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Reflections From Under a Mother &#%!@?! Rock
I try to have a pretty Buddhist approach to my life, you know, except the part about not eating animals. By and large, I try ...
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Can Bike Commuting Kill Road Rage?
Years ago I was driving up to a stop sign and getting ready to make a right turn. I looked to my left, didn’t see ...
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Ten Years Out There
It’s hard to believe that Out There Monthly has been around for a decade. I had to round up a copy of the first issue ...
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Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
On September 3, our nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. It wasn’t a smooth or easy process to create and pass a ...
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A Long Walk
A serious, full-time hiker friend of mine, Dick, who also goes by the trail name “Hike On,” shows up in town every year or so ...
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Meet Spokane’s Bike Delivery Drivers
They’re called drivers but they ride bikes. And they deliver food for Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches on Wall Street in downtown Spokane. What’s it like ...
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Biking the Going-to-the-Sun-Road
The seed was planted a few years ago when my dad and I rode our motorcycles into Glacier National Park. As we followed the two-lane ...
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Camping With Kids
Camping with kids isn’t really relaxing. Let’s admit that from the beginning. Tent camping, which frames my experiences so far as a parent, is a ...
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