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Amy McCaffree

Amy (Silbernagel) McCaffree is Out There Kids"columnist and digital editor. She grew up near the western foothills of the Central Cascade Mountains, and has lived in Spokane since 2003. She enjoys camping, biking, hiking, swimming, paddling, and alpine skiing with her husband and their two children. She has a MFA in Creative Writing from EWU (2005) and her articles, poems, and stories have appeared in various regional magazines, including the now-defunct Northwest Runner, and literary anthologies.

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Self portrait illustration of cyclist Justin Short.

Justin M. Short

Justin M Short, BA was 20 years a BMXer, a bike messenger, and is currently a bike tourist, bike commuter, mountain biker, and most recently has become a pied piper of gravel cyclists in the Inland NW, organizing races up Mt Spokane, gathering a community called the Gravel Braintrust, as well as producing a YouTube channel of the same name, arguably, to trick his bike friends into listening to his weird music. He is a 2-time finisher of the 700-mile CrossWashington Mountain Bike Race and writes the Everyday Cyclist column for OTO.

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Derrick Knowles

Derrick is editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Out There Outdoors, along with his wife, Shallan. He has spent more than 30 years exploring the Inland Northwest’s trails, mountains, lakes and rivers. He co-edited with Paul Lindholdt the book Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West (EWU Press, 2005), and his writing has also appeared in Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine based in B.C., Canada and Conservation Northwest Quarterly. He is an EWU alumni, with a B.A. in political science (1999) and master's in English technical writing (2003).