RICH BENNETT IS IMMUNE to his own awesomeness. An ice climber for more than 20 years, he talks about scaling frozen waterfalls as if it’s no big deal—and to him it’s not. He has the experience and knowledge it takes to make this death defying act a hobby. “People think ice climbers are risk takers […]
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SEAL MORGAN’S DAD PROMISED to buy him a new surfboard if he cut off his ponytail. The year was 1969. Morgan was 15 years old and obliged the compromise. But he hasn’t cut his hair since then. A self-proclaimed “old guy,” Morgan was a skater, surfer and snowboarder long before the collective conscience fell in
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It’s a clever routine. Alpine ski during the middle of the week when the throngs and masses of people are about their daily routines. Then Nordic ski on the weekends, when the slopes are busy and the backcountry is begging to be explored. Tom Schaaf played this game of leapfrog throughout his years in Spokane
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Parents worry about their kids. So when Andy Mahre told his parents he wanted to become a professional freestyle skier, they were concerned to say the least. The Washington native grew up in Yakima and was practically raised on the slopes at White Pass. He comes from an illustrious family of skiers—his father went on
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An Irish girl in a rez bar with a logging theme and the blues, Somehow, it works. Historic Bobbi’s Bar on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, on Hwy. 5 in Plummer, Idaho, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary on Nov. 27, during Thanksgiving weekend, with comedy and the blues. There will be a pig barbecue and
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Help Celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge and Spokane Audubon Society will host a community work party on Saturday, October 16. This is part of an ongoing community effort to restore native riparian habitat to benefit birds and other wildlife species. We have hundreds of native saplings to plant, and fencing to
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WTA (Washington Trails Association) will be doing work and will need volunteers.
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The St. Andrew’s Society and Spokane Highland Games Association challenged the Spokane Limerick Sister City Society and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick to a Scottish style TUG O’ WAR at a public taunting and throw of the gauntlet on July 7, 2010 at the downtown Irish stronghold, O’Doherty’s Irish Grille.
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Spokane resident Kay Leclaire is the oldest woman in the world to climb the Seven Summits—the highest peaks of the seven continents. “I guess I got the honor by default,” LeClaire jokes. In Spring of 2009, a woman named Nancy Norris was competing for the title but got sick at base camp. “I was on
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Necessity is the master of invention. Vince Zimmer, owner of Spokane Alpine Haus, grew up on the South Hill without a nearby ski shop. He was tired of catching the bus downtown just to check out the latest boots and skis, so in 1976, at the budding age of 25, he took a chance and
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