Hiking
Bead Lake, Colville National Forest
It’s wonderful to save Bead Lake for the shoulder season, when the majority of the boaters have placed their pleasure crafts into winter storage and ...
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Ten Ways to Explore the Silver Valley This Fall
Idaho’s Silver Valley is known for its rich mining history and rugged landscape. With 87% of Shoshone County classified as “forest uplands” and less than ...
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Hangman Creek Project: New Trail Proposed along Spokane’s Hangman Creek
Walk along Hangman Creek and you can be with ghosts of the Columbia Mammoth, giant salmon, red band trout, and the Native Americans, immigrants, and ...
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Footloose in the Kettle Range
Misinformation caused me to miss out on years of exploration on the Kettle Crest. Well-intentioned people told me the trails were too dry, had too ...
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Northeast Washington’s Wild Heart
Whether you’re a hiker or mountain biker, the Kettle Crest (or Kettle Range, Sherman Pass area, Columbia Highlands, or whatever else you call this remote, ...
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Hiking Northwest Montana’s Backcountry
Montana’s front country hiking becomes backcountry quickly, which makes it easy to get away from crowds. Although a week or more is preferred for a ...
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Long Lake Clean-Up with Packing It Out (Sept 5)
Join the Packing It Out team and Riverside State Park on September 5 for a clean-up of the Fisk property along Long Lake. The Packing ...
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Llama Packing: Backcountry Hiking is Better with a Four-Legged Friend
Four-legged friends are the best hiking buddies—particularly when they carry the wine, hum sweet-nothings in your ear, and provide protection while trekking in the Wild ...
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New App Aids in Exploration of Northeast Washington
If you like to hike, bike, camp, fish, float, boat or hunt the uncrowded trails, forests, lakes and rivers of the three Northeast Washington counties, ...
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