What’s new at Schweitzer?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Schweitzer officially opened its 2019-2020 ski season Friday, Nov. 29, with the Basin Express Quad servicing Midway. The mountain will open more terrain as soon as Mother Nature kicks...
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Many wild questions
By Phil Hough Reader Contributor Nothing is more wild than our imagination. Blank spots on the map are places to explore; we enter them not knowing what we will find. We need wild places...
A striking snowmobile film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff What the late, great Warren Miller did for ski movies, Thunderstruck Films has been doing for snowmobiling with more than 20 films since 2000. The Colorado-based company helped pioneer...
Schweitzer to open one lift Nov. 29
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Despite Mother Nature dragging her feet, Schweitzer Mountain Resort plans to kick off its 2019-2020 ski season Friday, Nov. 29 with limited terrain available. The resort plans to operate...
Big fish on the big lake
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For more than 40 years, the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club has sponsored the K&K Fall Thanksgiving Fishing Derby on Lake Pend Oreille, giving local anglers a chance to...
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Education
By Dr. Elizabeth Wargo Reader Contributor Sandpoint may be an aspiring trail town, but it has long been a place that values local educational opportunities that get youth into the outdoors. Scroll through Sandpoint...
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Economic Development
By Jason Welker Reader Contributor A trail is more than a place to ride a bike, walk your dog or exercise your horse. A trail is a community asset; it is part of the...
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Health
By Deb Ruehle Reader Contributor “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” — Henry David Thoreau ...
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Conservation
By Regan Plumb Reader Contributor Trails may be most immediately associated with providing opportunities for fresh air and exercise, but there are more subtle factors at play just beneath the surface. Conservation is just...
Sick situation
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As hunters hit the mountains this fall on their annual mission to fill their freezers, many harbored a concern that the meat they harvested might be tainted by chronic...
