Wild foods are not as large or uniform as their supermarket counterparts, but they often contain higher nutritional value—and hold up better in the kitchen, according to “Wildman” Steve Brill, author of Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild and Not-So-Wild Places and The Wild Vegan Cookbook. Many vegetables look bigger in the […]
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The list was befitting the items needed for a 13-year-old’s sleepover: Oreos. Glow sticks. A life-size cardboard cutout of Twilight star Robert Pattinson. In actuality, these were some of the things packed by my best friends and myself (all, ahem, in our late twenties and early thirties) for our annual “Friendship Reunion” camping trip last
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To jumpstart his kayaking hobby nearly 15 years ago, Mark Lawrence built his first kayak. At a Mountain Gear demo day at Liberty Lake, he paddled a kayak for the first time. “Within three or four strokes, I knew I had to have one,” he says. So he got a precut wood kayak kit from
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By Callae Frazier And Dale Tessin What inspires and encourages us to step away? Why do we intentionally present ourselves with physical, mental and psychological challenges in the backcountry? For some it’s the sense of adventure. Others are instilled with confidence by the experience. And many simply revel in the opportunity to spend as much
Jonckers skiing in Idaho. In case you haven’t heard about the avalanche threat in the backcountry here’s a report from OTM writer Jon Jonckers: I can tell you first-hand from backcountry skiing in the Selkirks above Priest Lake (near the Sundance Burn), these are the worst avalanche conditions I have ever seen. And it seems
A red band trout. A frequent contributor to OTM and an avid fly fisher remarked to me recently that the trout fishing is the Spokane River is a lot worse than last year. What could be the reason? Where could he go to find out answers? I posed that question to our resident water expert
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Old-growth forest stands provide destinations for hiking and camping to better appreciation the grandeur of old, big trees.
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Jessie Mueller and Sue and Sue PaDelford wait to remove the cut out sections.Photo Leon Sproule. Just recieved a great email about trail work: Dear Editor, This is just a note to tell you that I enjoy reading your magazine. There is always something to catch your attention about the things that are going on
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PIONEER VOICES OF PRIEST LAKE Kris Runberg Smith, Editor Kehoe Press, 2007, 208 pages DRAWING ON CHILDHOOD memories of the Priest Lake region, Ms. Runberg Smith weaves oral histories from a dozen or so Priest Lake pioneers into a refreshing view of the region’s history. Unlike some of the prior histories of the region, which
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(1.) HARVESTER RESTAURANT 401 West First Street, Spangle, WA (509) 245-3552 MOST POPULAR “neighborhood” restaurants feel as if their ambience came packed in a shipping crate marked “kitsch,” their almost-too-perfect arrangement of quirky signs and fake-vintage photographs. The whimsical conglomeration of old signs, newspaper clippings and other bric-a-brac at the Harvester Restaurant in Spangle, however,
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