Camping Destinations via Hike, Bike, or Bus
With car-free camping, adventure begins when you leave your front door. Here are 5 Spokane-area destinations to arrive by bike, bus, or hike.
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Don’t Miss Sekani Adventure Day
Join OTM this Saturday at Sekani Park from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm for all kinds of outdoor family fun: canoeing, bouldering, kayaking, rafting, archery, mountain biking, camping, cooking, long boarding, hiking and more. Find details and register here.
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Whitewater Park Event Tomorrow
An update and a cool event related to the whitewater park courtesy of Friends of the Falls: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Kayaking Exhibition: 6pm Dinner: 7:30-9:30pm Bitterroot Lodge 21850 E. Bitterroot Lane Liberty Lake Enjoy a live demonstration of whitewater kayaking on the Spokane River and an evening with Gary Lacey, the designer of the
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Do We Love the River? Let’s Prove it.
That’s the crux of Friends of the Falls Director Steve Faust’s River Greenway District proposal. Right now most facets of the Spokane River and the recreation associated with it suffer from some degree of active or benign neglect. Are we will to pony up to make this area world-class? This piece appears in the current
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The Secret History of Inland Northwest Outdoor Recreation
By Jon Snyder, Jon Jonckers, & Derrick Knowles Please take a moment while charging your GPS and IPhone to consider the hallowed tradition of the regional outdoor guidebook. It’s no secret that outdoor knowledge has exploded on the internet. Sites with user submitted data and comments are proliferating and enhancing what we know of the
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Palouse Divide Ski Area: A Cross Country Gem In The Hoodoos
THE SNOW BELT AT Palouse Divide Nordic Ski Area is a recreational gem tucked into the Hoodoo Mountains atop a 3,600-foot pass in Idaho’s southern Benewah County. The groomed ski area and charming retreat center next door make this a rural destination worth checking out. The trail s ystem straddles the border between the St.
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Can Nature Heal The Wounds Of War?
As a kid growing up in Medical Lake, Washington, Shawn Graves wasn’t much different than his buddies. As a self-described “outdoors type person”, he used to love to to ski, snowmobile, hike and fish. Just about anything that would get him outside. “Now,” he says, “I can’t do anything like that alone for fear of
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Don’t Spend Conservation Futures $ on the YMCA building
I just sent this letter off to City and County officials. I’m ready for the hate mail to pour in. What do you think?: Dear Director Chase, Commisioner Mager, Commisioner Meilke, Commisioner Richard, I urge you not to consider using Conservation Futures funds to acquire the YMCA property in Riverfront Park. I am puzzled as
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Old-Growth Adventures in the Inland Northwest
Old-growth forest stands provide destinations for hiking and camping to better appreciation the grandeur of old, big trees.
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Chance to Hear Iranian Cyclists
Persian Hour host Sharokh (white shirt) at the Polly Judd tree planting with Jafar and Nsim on his left. Saturday’s planting of a Peace Tree in Polly Judd parks was fabulous. Later that evening the Iranian cyclists, Nasim and Jafar, gave a terrific slideshow on their trip at the community building. If you missed it
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