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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The FBC has a cool post with mud puddle pics from the last cyclocross race of the the season at Riverside State Park. Good, wholesome fun. While you are there poke around the site check out details of the Full Moon Festivus Fiasco coming up in a couple weeks. Double-proof that cold weather doesn’t kill
Stuart blasts through in the Men’s B heat on a single-speed. // Photo Jon Snyder The Cyclocross race this Sunday at Farragut State Park in Idaho made for a nearly perfect November afternoon. OTM columnist John Speare hired Loren Dudley and his fifteen person-van with bike trailer allowing us to assemble a serious posse for
As a cyclist, late autumn is traditionally a transition time. The short sleeves of summer are long packed away and endless calibration between under-dressing and over-dressing makes for a good distraction from the anticipation of mounting the studded tires. Luckily, there is a growing segment of racing that serves as an even better distraction: cyclocross.
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Your humble servant posing with his trash booty. // Photo by Hank. Despite a flash downpour this year’s Spokane River Clean Up seemed like the best ever. I had a blast, partly because the kids didn’t come this year (although I love doing it with them.) Without having to worry about coming across needles and
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It’s our four-year anniversary. Here’s a list I like to call, “OTM Articles That Got the Biggest Reader Response—Good and Bad—From Our First Four Years.” In reverse order of impact: 7. “The Best Local Rocks You’ve Never Climbed,” a cover story by in our September 2006 issue is still our most requested back issue. The
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JULY IS A GREAT TIME OF YEAR to take a bike tour. In this month’s column, I’ll explain some basics about how to prepare and try out your first loaded bike tour. By loaded, I’m assuming that you’ll be carrying, at a minimum, a change of clothes, but more likely, you’ll be hauling a tent
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Both of these Mountain Gear events have a new location this year: Nine-Mile Recreation Area in Riverside State Park. The festivities start with Paddle Fair on Saturday and then Canoe Classic on Sunday. Don’t miss it. The weather is looking great.
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The Story Behind the Justin C. Haeger Ten-Mile Memorial Run You will never find a more unassuming or modest race director than Ron Haeger. Soft spoken yet easy to understand, he focuses on creating a road race that he would enjoy and then hopes people appreciate it. Although it’s difficult to get him to talk
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SPOKANE WAS NOT UNLIKE hundreds of other cities and towns at the time that discovered the rivers that ran through them were a tremendous source of waterpower. Now, despite the efforts to harness the river-which Avista Utilities and its predecessor Washington Water Power did a thorough job of by placing a half-dozen dams along its
