THOUGHT YOU WERE TOUGH after Bloomsday last year? Maybe you felt like you could walk another seven miles. How about 36,000 miles? That just happens to be the distance of the route of the Goliath Expedition. The Goliath Expedition is, as its website relates, “Karl Bushby’s attempt to walk around the world with unbroken footsteps.” […]
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Want to be a professional skier? Step One: Learn to ski as soon as possible. Step Two: Continue to seek mountains that will challenge you. Step Three: Get your picture taken. Step Four: Keep pushing yourself. At least, that’s what Cheney-grown Micah Black did. The freeskiing superstar got his start in the world of skiing
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Some people just don’t understand the allure of fishing. Others, like John Kallas, just can’t seem to live without it. He has fished for over forty years, and he loves it so much, he came out of retirement to work at his local White Elephant, where he gets to talk about fishing all day. This
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Dash and Kix Kamp: No, despite the cute names, they’re not the latest invention of the Disney Channel or some comic book writer, but even at the young ages of 15 and 10, respectively, these brothers from Sandpoint have already established themselves as unreal. Unreal snowboarders, that is. Dash started riding when he was six
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Forever on the mountaIn James M. tabor W.W. Norton, 2007, 370 pages. During the last week of July 1967 a prolonged, violent storm, an Arctic hurricane, struck Alaska’s Denali National Park. The storm spawned the worst climbing disaster in the history of the park and the third worst in the history of mountaineering up that
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Carol Dellinger did not start running with lofty goals in mind, but you better believe she’s found them along the way. As a recreational softball player in her twenties, “I thought I should start working on endurance so I could turn some of my singles into doubles,” she says. One new pair of shoes and
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DAPPLED CITIES Granddance (Dangerbird) Dangerbird Records is home to a slew of bands that create music outside the confines of average. Average ain’t even on their radar. The result is albums that catch you off guard, that surprise you by their off-kilter originality. This mentality has spawned bands like Silversun Pickups, Sea Wolf, The One
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When it comes to backpacking, Helen Biggs is a lady who knows what she wants. She’s been around the proverbial block: Biggs has done backpacking trips in the Sierra Nevada, the Beartooths, Kelly Creek, the Wind River Range, the Sangalia Ridge in India, and the Kokanee Range in B.C. So it’s safe to say she
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If you’ve ever cross-country skied at Mt. Spokane, chances are you’ve skied in the tracks of a local legend. She might not get much name recognition around town, but on the mountain’s Langlauf course, Deb Bauer’s name is synonymous with champion. She has raced nationally, and internationally at the Master’s World Championship in Lake Placid
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A Mile In Her Boots: Women Who Work In The Wild Jennifer Bové, Editor Solas House, 2006, 296 pages. After reading A Mile in Her Boots, I may never again complain about my aching back after a hard day at the laptop. For the women who contributed to this compilation of true stories, “going to
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