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Record Low Flows Mean It’s Time to Adapt
I’m never far from our river, in whatever form it takes. This fall as I was waxed my skis, I dreamed of turns in deep ...
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Hike of the Month: Heart Lake Loop (Bitterroot Mountains, Idaho/Montana Stateline)
To give this route justice, devote at least a weekend to exploration and hike, at minimum, the complete loop around Heart Lake. This route includes ...
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Planless: A Journey Back to Loving What You Loved
When I first started doing crazy things like running marathons, I felt compelled to have plans. I would buy books on training, obsessively surf the ...
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Lost in the Kettle River Range
It’s difficult to imagine hiking without my hairy beast, a lab-boxer dog named Rosco (P. Coltrane). Rosco’s enthusiasm for trail running, hiking, swimming, and a ...
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The Ultimate Summer Adventure
Adventure is one of those words that can mean very different things to different people. What would your “ultimate summer adventure” look like? Hopefully we’ve ...
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Paddle Board Prodigy: Meet River Surfer Charlie Cindric
The immense might of the Spokane River raged by as Charlie Cindric paddled his stand up paddleboard to the churning edge of the current where ...
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Leaf Root Fungi Fruit: Coral Mushrooms
May is for morels, mycophiles say. But at “Out There Monthly,” May is for corals! No scuba gear required because the forest corals are terrestrial ...
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How to Write about Bikes and Cars
As a cyclist and a motorist who is also a teacher of writing, I can’t help but notice two rather curious things about how newspapers ...
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Eating Well in the Woods: Healthy Camp Food Tips
One time, and one time only, I ate one of those Mountain House dehydrated meals. I had been misled into believing that real outdoors people ...
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