Snow Sports
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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Piste Off Liftie: Keeping it Real
A new ski season is upon us, and man am I stoked. Took a new gig this off-season working at a local pot shop, mainly ...
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Rock Skis: An Ode to Early-Season Sticks
Maybe you’ve seen this movie before. You have a brand new set of sticks that were just mounted and tuned, and they’ve been calling for ...
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Ski Bum Advice: Five People You Might Share a Table With in the Lodge
As I get older and slower, I find that taking more breaks is essential to making it through a day on the mountain. Not really ...
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Mountain Mugs: Mountain Gear’s Mark Beattie Explains Why There is No Bad Ski Day
Last March I walked up to the counter at Mountain Gear with a few pieces of backpacking gear and chatted briefly with the store’s assistant ...
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Skiing Uphill: Rules to Follow if You Plan to Ski or Snowshoe up Mt. Spokane this Winter
As we head into winter in the Inland Northwest, many of us are gearing up for winter activities, and for many seasoned and aspiring backcountry ...
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