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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Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest Lincoln Hall Tarcher/Penguin, 2008, 294 pages While not quite Lazarus, Lincoln Hall is a “resurrected” veteran mountain climber from Australia who was left for dead on Mount Everest by three Sherpa members of his expedition team on May 25, 2006. Hall—age 50 at the time of his
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A few months ago I stumbled across the biggest backcountry trash heap I’ve ever seen. While rock climbing in Northrup Canyon, near Banks Lake and Steamboat Rock, I found approximately 2 or 3 acres of rusted cans. I couldn’t believe it. My climbing partner and I hypothesized that they came from the workers on Grand
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PIONEER VOICES OF PRIEST LAKE Kris Runberg Smith, Editor Kehoe Press, 2007, 208 pages DRAWING ON CHILDHOOD memories of the Priest Lake region, Ms. Runberg Smith weaves oral histories from a dozen or so Priest Lake pioneers into a refreshing view of the region’s history. Unlike some of the prior histories of the region, which
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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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Moscow, Idaho’s Village Bicycle Project is on the Cutting Edge of Two-Wheel Economic Development One of the best programs in bicycle-related economic development operates right here in the Inland Northwest. The Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute, in Moscow, Idaho operates the Village Bicycles Project. This program has been shipping bikes to Ghana for almost a decade.
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Wind tunnel studies on Lance Armstrong are fascinating, but few of us can afford the luxuries of expensive performance testing. A VO2max Test (maximal aerobic capacity) can run you as high as $400. This information is only valuable when compared over a season of training and from year to year. Needless to say, the expenses
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I’VE BEEN WRITING THIS urban outdoors column for about a year now and it is with a heavy heart and a blood alcohol level of .024 that I write this, my last columnfor a while. GROWING UP IN DENMARK, I never dreamed I could be an outdoors writer. When the editors of Out There Monthly
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(1.) HARVESTER RESTAURANT 401 West First Street, Spangle, WA (509) 245-3552 MOST POPULAR “neighborhood” restaurants feel as if their ambience came packed in a shipping crate marked “kitsch,” their almost-too-perfect arrangement of quirky signs and fake-vintage photographs. The whimsical conglomeration of old signs, newspaper clippings and other bric-a-brac at the Harvester Restaurant in Spangle, however,
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It’s been eleven years since Avery, Idaho resident Milt Turley struggled through thick brush high on a rugged table in the Bitterroot Mountains, shoving a long steel rod into the ground, probing the earth with the hope of finding evidence of six ancient stone pillars reported by several eyewitnesses over the last century. Turley had
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