The first thing you’ll likely notice as you approach Fernie, BC, from the south on Highway 3, is the abrupt shift in weather. Just outside of town, the highway passes through a tunnel. It’s roughly here that the broad bottomlands of the Elk River jackknife into the triangular valley in which the city sits. Locals […]
For Terry Gosline, Terrain Park Manager at Silver Mountain Resort, every day on the job is like building a sand castle that’s meant to be stomped on. Between both the main terrain park under Chair 2 and the Noah’s progression park on the front-side of the mountain, Gosline and his ten-person crew put out upwards
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To have fun skiing and make it a lifelong sport is every ski-parent’s dream for their kid. Twelve-year-old Jackson Syron, of Spokane, has only been skiing for two full seasons so far, but he has quickly progressed. “You would never know he hasn’t been skiing his whole life,” says his mom, Tiffany Syron, who learned
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A sale-priced season pass from one of the Ski the NW Rockies association affiliated resorts costs less than a plane ticket to the tropics, so save some money and get your vitamin D skiing and riding in our local mountains this winter! 49 Degrees North (fall pass pricing through 11/15/19) Adults $479 // youth $359
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Volkswagen Presents Warren Miller’s 2019 film, Timeless, in Spokane on November 2 Year after year, ski and snowboard enthusiasts of all ages look forward to the coming of winter. This fall, Warren Miller Entertainment (WME) confirms that the joys of winter are eternal with its 70th full-length feature film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen. Much of the world has
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Doug Dial, aka Coach (Mt. Spokane) Doug Dial was a recent transplant from California in 1977 when he first skied at Mt. Spokane. He’d relocated to the Inland Northwest, built a house in the nearby foothills, and was motivated to purchase a season pass. His first winter as a Spokanite was less than glamorous. “Yeah,
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Sally Phillips is concerned. As one of Spokane’s longtime leading cycling advocates, as well as a board member for Spokefest—the Inland Northwest’s largest bicycle ride, held the second Sunday in September—Sally fears the event’s future is increasingly murky. “Last year we were about to cancel the whole thing until the day before,” she says. “In
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I quit my job last February. Specifically, I quit one because I had found another. It was just time to move on. In any event, I had a few days to myself in between the old and the new, and thought I would treat myself to a mid-week day at 49 Degrees North, which, when
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Over the past decade of skiing, I’ve noticed my attention being drawn to the poof balls of puffy jackets, oversized helmets, and comically-tiny gear that adorns little kids on the slopes. Watching them shuffle to the magic carpet or bunny hill lift and scoot on, with parents doting to keep them from falling, is adorable
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Following an unplanned disembarkation from a standup paddleboard into Jimsmith Lake, south of Cranbrook, British Columbia, I found myself sitting, shivering, on the dock of a local resident I’ve never met. “Want a cookie?” one of my paddling companions, a considerably more proficient SUPer, asks. “The owner of this dock leaves this plastic tub of
