Clean water makes good coffee. As basic as that sounds, that’s all it took for DOMA Coffee Roasting Company to come up with the design for its “GOOD COFFEE” blend, a mutually beneficial non-profit/business partnership between three regional Waterkeeper organizations (Spokane Riverkeeper, Lake Coeur d’Alene Waterkeeper and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper). All three organizations are […]
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Stand up paddleboarding – also known as SUP – is a pretty beginner-friendly sport, but there are still plenty of tricks that can help you paddle more efficiently and have more fun. I rented a paddleboard for the first time in Hawaii a few years back, and with years of surfing experience, I figured the
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Back before the Internet, it was more difficult to break out into new outdoor sports than it is today, especially technical ones like climbing that usually require someone to show you the ropes. The local outdoors community coalesced around clubs like the Spokane Mountaineers and Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club, where people who were into
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I’m never far from our river, in whatever form it takes. This fall as I was waxed my skis, I dreamed of turns in deep Copper Basin, Bitterroot Mountain powder. Layers and layers of clean Idaho snow; our river in its most primordial form. But as the winter drug on and the mountains were buffeted
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The Inland Northwest is home to many fun and unique festivals. Here we’ve highlighted a few interesting festivals celebrating everything from huckleberries and community heritage to original music, beer and wine and the outdoors. While this is certainly not an exhaustive list, it’s a great sampling of the diversity of our Inland Northwest communities and
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Have you always wanted to try stand up paddleboarding, rock climbing, kayaking or geo-caching? How about SUP yoga, disc golf, rafting, slacklining or demoing the latest mountain and road bikes? Or is hanging out in a pine-shaded beer garden watching mountain bikers flying through the air at the Spokatopia Mountain Bike Jump Jam and listening
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Race to the Top of Beacon Hill! 5K 1,000 Feet Up As fast as you can… The first annual Up Chuck Challenge trail run starts at Camp Sekani Park on the Up Chuck Trail for a fun, winding, nearly all singletrack hill climb to the top of Beacon Hill. The 5k course gains nearly 1,000
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“Paddling is a wholesome sport and a good way to meet people,” says Stan Mrzygod, president of the Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club, which he’s been a member of since 1979. He and his wife taught their three children how to paddle. “They just learned by doing it with me,” he says. By the teenage
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A lackluster Northwest winter is rapidly turning to spring, which means the time to hike is now. With hundreds of trail miles waiting to be explored on our local public lands, there is no excuse to stay indoors. When checking out Spokane County’s Conservation Futures properties; state parks; or our surrounding state, BLM and National
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Running a single marathon is a serious accomplishment. It takes dedication, mental discipline, and plenty of training to cross the finish line still running after 26.2 miles. Completing 100 marathons is something entirely different, a benchmark that relatively few highly goal driven, resilient athletes reach. Elaine Koga-Kennelly, the current Race Director for the Windermere Marathon,
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