Chances are, if you are drawn to the wild, you might, someday, have to survive in the wild. Whether you’re a hiker, biker, floater, fisher, hunter or gatherer, there is always the inherent possibility that, at any moment, mother nature is capable of reminding you and your iPhone just who is in charge. Any number
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring Richard Preston Random House, 2007, 284 pages. If you were asked to find the least understood of Earth’s ecosystems, where would look? The bottom of the ocean? The polar ice caps? The top of alpine peaks? All likely places but all wrong. Our most seldom seen
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Is anyone as tired as I am hearing about how Portland, Oregon is some sort of angelic eco-city? PDX is an American bicycle nirvana, leaving everywhere but Davis, CA in the dust-allegedly. Am I the only one who remembers a toxic Willamette River, Skinheads who killed people, and Portland drivers so hostile to cyclists that
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Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits Phil and Susan Ershler with Robin Simmons Warner Books, April 2007, 289 pages. Finally a “Seven Summits” book that is more than a check-off on someone’s “life list.” Together on Top of the World takes us
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Mark Harris lives his life carving hills. A former competitive snowboarder, the current Schweitzer snowboard team coach took up longboarding during the summer to fill the competitive void and fell in love with the sport and its lifestyle. “In this high tech world with cell phones and PDAs, where our cars talk to us and
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Since our 4-1/2-year-old daughter was about a year old, she’s spent most of her transport time on a bicycle. Our family shops, runs errands, goes to school, and generally gets around by bike, and in most cases, Maddie is with us. Over the last few years, in our quest for the perfect “kid-hauler”, my wife
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In June, Out There Monthly won three first place Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, or SPJ. The 2007 awards were given for material published in 2006. The publication received two awards in the non-daily newspaper category from the Inland Northwest Chapter of SPJ, which includes news outlets from Eastern Washington,
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Sandpoint, Idaho resident Brandyn Roark Gray is one of the top-ranked female amateur competitors on the XTERRA off-road triathlon series. We asked her about the XTERRA series and pumped her for tips on being a better triathlete. The distances in Xterra are shorter, does that mean it’s easier than a IronMan Triathlon? I don’t think
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It is perhaps appropriate that the geographical center of the State of Washington sits just a few miles from Wenatchee. Because when you talk rafting for the masses, many will consider the Wenatchee as “the river” for Washington whitewater. Sure there’s many other great rivers from which to choose in the state-the Skykomish, White Salmon
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THE ACADEMY IS… “We’ve Got a Big Mess on our Hands” (Fueled by Ramen) I’m so embarrassed this is the lead off review that if I weren’t tirelessly anal about all things properly alphabetical, I’d toss it to the “T”s. But here we are. Truth is, I love The Academy Is… (and things just got
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