Snow Sports
Avalanche Education Resources
The Northwest Avalanche Center is a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service Northwest Avalanche Center and the non-profit Northwest Avalanche Center. It provides mountain weather ...
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Schweitzer Opens New Sky House Summit Lodge
A new 9,000-square-foot lodge on the summit of Schweitzer Mountain with a restaurant, full-service bar, café, and space for private events and outdoor seating opened ...
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Explore the Winter Wilds Safely—Be Avalanche Aware
I rolled into the foyer of an outfitter that had inundated Facebook with advertisements about a $5 Avalanche Awareness event. The atmosphere was that of ...
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Four Northwest Yurts for Winter Adventuring
The yurt, an often portable, round tent that has been used as a home in Central Asia for at least 3,000 years, is slowly becoming ...
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Silver Mountain Resort Changes Hands
Silver Mountain Resort recently announced that ownership of the North Idaho resort is changing hands. The new owners from the Seattle area are extremely excited ...
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Five Favorite Inland NW Snowshoe Hikes
It’s no wonder that snowshoeing is the fastest growing winter sport. As one snowshoe joke puts it, anyone can learn how to do it in ...
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Rolling a Fatty: One More Way to Love Winter
As a bike aficionado, I’m not exactly hard to convince that I need another bike. Apparently owning a bike for every type of cycling in ...
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Northwest Snow/Fat Bike Events
Northwest Fat Bike Meetup, Methow Valley (January 14-15) A weekend of informal group rides (Pearrygin Lake State Park Saturday and the Methow Trails system Sunday), ...
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Mountain Fun: Plenty of Cool Events are Calling You Up to Your Favorite Ski Hill This Winter
It’s peak snow season in the Inland Northwest, and our ski areas have come up with even more incentives to get up to the mountain ...
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