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Team OTM Offers Race Discounts, Camaraderie and Plenty of Personal Challenge

Adventure Sports, Biking, Events, Get Out There, Running / By Janelle McCabe

In the January issue, Out There Monthly announced a new program, the Team OTM Challenge, which encourages our readers to complete at least one participating race each month from May through October. We’re working with race directors of more than 30 events (and counting) in 2016 to provide a diverse selection of runs, rides, triathlons […]

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Disc Golf with Winter Gloves

Disc Golf, Get Out There / By Janelle McCabe

“It’s basically a hike with a purpose.” That’s how disc golfer Steven Lambert describes the sport, and he couldn’t have chosen a better metaphor to convince me to give disc golf a try. (As opposed to using, say, a “ball golf” metaphor. More on that later). Our small group meets at High Bridge Park, a

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Hike of the Month: Feryn Ranch Conservation Area (Spokane County Parks)

Get Out There, Hike of the Month, Hiking / By Holly Weiler

A stop on the Audubon Society’s Palouse to Pines Loop, this 164-acre Conservation Futures property is a good place to acquire an appreciation for bird watching. Identified as a migration corridor for 108 bird species, visitors should bring a bird book or download a good identification app to help determine what one is seeing. Don’t

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Motivation Behind the Madness: Local Runners Share Winter Running Secrets

Get Out There, Running / By Out There Outdoors

The sidewalks are knee-deep in snow, the sun set hours ago, and evening commuters are sliding in around every icy corner. Yet for a certain athletic population, these near-arctic conditions pose a unique appeal. What is it that keeps Northwest runners from putting away their running gear and hibernating all winter? When it’s cold, dark,

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Paddling Upper Priest Lake As Easy As 1, 2, 3,***

Get Out There / By Out There Outdoors

IT’S A UBIQUITOUS SUMMER PHRASE in Spokane: “Going to the lake.” For some, the body of water referenced is Coeur d’Alene; for others, Newman or Hayden lakes. For many, though, the “lake” in the phrase is Priest, probably the most popular water destination in the area and certainly the most scenic (apologies to Pend Oreille

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They Can’t Be Stopped – New Running Clubs Take Off

Get Out There, Running / By Jon Jonckers

CHRIS MORLAN HAS SUPER POWERS. By day, most people know him as an architect, a good husband and a caring father. But this is all part of his plan to blend in with the rest of the community. His modest demeanor and easy-going smile might fool some, but when it’s time to run, he reveals

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Great Backcountry Grub

Magazine Article / By Amy McCaffree

You know how it is. Five, maybe seven, even two and a half miles into a backcountry campsite, perhaps somewhere only your GPS knows. Your feet hurt, and legs ache. After pitching your tent, it’s dinner time. Those who know backpacking understand the key essentials for survival: food, water, shelter. Besides scenery, good food is

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Book Reviews

Book Reveiws, Magazine Article / By Out There Outdoors

Personal Record Rachel Toor University of Nebraska Press, 2008, 164 pages I readily admit I’m a sucker for great books about running, and I confess that I do like the Penguin Chronicles. I’ve notched enough marathons to appreciate gutsy races, ridiculous workouts, and the esoteric prose that some writers put forth to champion their cause,

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Book Reviews: February 2008

Book Reveiws, Magazine Article / By Out There Outdoors

Deep Economy Bill McKibben Henry Holt, 2007, 272 pages In December Sorbonne students protested the disconnect between economic theory and reality. Their disillusion is palpable every time the Fed howls its quarterly screed: cast the interest rate net, cage the inflation beast, and the economy will grow. What of the export of manufacturing jobs, underemployment,

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Roadtrip: Backpacking to Heart Lake MT

Magazine Article / By Amy McCaffree

I love to go backpacking, but sometimes I don’t feel like driving to far-flung places just to reach a trailhead to then hike with 30 pounds on my back. That’s why Heart Lake in the Bitterroot Mountains is a quick and easy weekend getaway to the backcountry. It takes only two hours to drive from

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