Hiking
Hike of the Month: Abercrombie Mountain via Flume Creek Trail
Colville National Forest Not that the Inland Northwest has particularly tall mountains, as the Selkirk Range can’t quite measure up to Cascade standards for height, ...
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Best Autumn Hikes around Spokane
Four of the best destinations around Spokane for hiking and enjoying nature's colorful transition to autumn, from family-friendly to more challenging routes.
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The Great Fires of 1910
Forty-year-old Edward Crockett Pulaski—known as “Big Ed” because he was 6 feet, 4 inches tall—was much older than his fellow U.S. Forest Service colleagues when ...
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Hiking, Hot Springing, & More Near McCall, Idaho
As the summer crowds attest, it can be hard to leave the shore of Payette Lake in McCall. But Payette and its aquatic-kin Cascade Lake ...
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Fall Day Hike: Central Cascade’s Rachel Lake
Picture a majestic mountain lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains, only 4 miles from a trailhead. Too good to be true? It’s not. But Rachel Lake ...
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Hike of the Month: Rock Creek Falls and Rock Lake
Hiking in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness September may remain hot and dry in the low country, but the month typically grants high country visitors their ...
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Ana Maria Spagna: Gone Native
She fills her pockets and her pack and her shirt and loiters long, too long, until our companions move on up the trail. Miles from here ...
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Backcountry Hikes in Glacier National Park
Grinnell Glacier Trailis often visitors’ favorite, thanks in part to the elegant Many Glacier Hotel, dining room and ice cream parlor, its beach, nearby campground, ...
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Citizen Science & the Crown of the Continent
Rapidly shrinking glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park alarm scientists and visitors to the mountainous 1.013 million-acre park along the Alberta border. In the past ...
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