Fat biking in North Idaho
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Chances are you’ve seen someone biking around town or on snowy trails with a fat-tire bicycle. If you’ve ever wondered what they are all about and how you might...
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Let’s hear it for the (winter) birds
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Is there any more pleasant sight than flocks of migrating birds taking wing and flying overhead in magnificent V-shaped formations, bound for their wintertime southern climates? Yet, not every...
Three nights of mountain bliss
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s time once again for all outdoor enthusiasts to gather at the altar of winter sport to herald in another year of movies from the mountains. The Banff Mountain...
KLT and SNC opens new outdoor rec center at PSW
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s been a stellar first year for Pine Street Woods, the 180-acre gift to the community from Kaniksu Land Trust. Featuring year-round trails through rolling meadows and healthy woodlands,...
Christmas Bird Count, 120 years in the making
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Prior to the turn of the 20thcentury, a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt” was popular among hunters. Participants would choose sides and go afield with their...
Trail Dispatches: Sherwood Forest to Pine Street Woods
By Regan Plumb Reader Contributor If you are a Sandpoint area dog walker, trail runner, woods walker, mountain biker or all of the above, you are likely acquainted with Sherwood Forest and Pine Street...
The white stuff
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Ever wonder why there are so many different kinds of snowflakes? Different conditions in the atmosphere create different kinds of snow, which can have big consequences for people once...
Mad About Science: Skis
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s that time of the year again, when half the area’s population grumbles about the encroaching snow that must be heaved from our driveways, while the other half blows...
Tapping into the root
By Ben Olson Reader Staff As the cold nights swallow shorter and shorter days, chimneys begin to emit those comforting puffs of smoke from winter fires within. It’s wood-burning season — the time to...
Big adventure on the big screen
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Let’s admit it — backcountry winter adventures are not for everyone. But watching incredible feats of exploration play out on the big screen while knowing you’re helping local youth...
