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Climbing Freak Timmy O’Neil Comes to Town

Most hard-core rock climbers are good for a hair-raising story or two-that 100-foot fall on one piece of protection, the unexpected night spent hanging in ...
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Editorial: The Fish Lake Trail

The Fish Lake Trail is an old railroad right-of-way between Cheney and Spokane that the City of Spokane controls. Right now about three miles of ...
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Music Reviews: August 2006

THE BRADBURY PRESS The Front (self-released) You can separate this Seattle band from the current trash-heap of country-fied rock bands by virtue of some nice ...
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Book Reviews: August 2006

Kayaking Made Easy, 3rd Ed. Dennis Stuhaug Falcon, 2006, 264 pages. This is a carefully and lovingly written review of all aspects of sea kayaking ...
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Jess Walter: The Urban Outdoors

Recently I was challenged by a poet in Lycra bike shorts to write an entire column about bicycling without making fun of the way people ...
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Old School Camping: Going Lean, Mean, and Green

Camping is one of those simple, all-American activities that’s gotten way too complicated in our high-speed, high-tech modern world. Gear is great for getting you ...
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Backpacking with Baby

Hovering seventy feet above the “Going-to-the-Sun Road” and grasping onto a garden hose bolted to the rock wall, we slowly walked forward with our toddler ...
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Ellensburg Wal-Mart Fight

Can big-box retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and Bed Bath & Beyond coexist in a small rural town, with a declining, but architecturally significant city ...
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Editorial: Parks Under Roads

Climber Marty Bland has a dream; An urban public climbing park underneath the old Sunset Highway Bridge. “You could get a pro-climber to set the ...
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