The Urban Outdoors
People’s Park: An Oasis of Nature Near Downtown Spokane
For thousands of years people have enjoyed the little peninsula upstream from the confluence of Latah Creek and the Spokane River. The name “People’s Park” ...
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Help Count City Birds in the Middle of Winter
It’s All Part of the Spokane Christmas Bird Count Fun Sunday morning, December 27, will find 60 or so muffled, mittened, rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed folks ...
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Finding Fall Colors at Finch Arboretum
The Finch Arboretum is a 10-star public park on a four-star scale. No doubt, Manito Park, Riverfront Park and the Dishman Hills Conservancy are also ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
I’VE BEEN WRITING THIS urban outdoors column for about a year now and it is with a heavy heart and a blood alcohol level of ...
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Road Warriors: The State of Urban Cycling in Spokane
If you want to know what’s up with urban cycling you’ve got to talk to folks who put rubber to the road everyday. OTM recently sat ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
I was just at a swanky party on the top of the Smith Tower in Seattle and I kept getting the dreaded Spokane eye. You’re ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
This is the kind of story I used to read in the Drama in Real Life section of my grandparents’ Readers Digest-one of those harrowing ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
There was six inches of fresh powder over a righteous base and I was seriously shredding-practically cliff-hucking, and that’s when I caught more air than ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors
Lately, people in downtown Spokane have been stopping me on the street to ask how the urban outdoorsperson should vote in this month’s election. “Hey,” ...
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