Chamber welcomes Idaho Club with ribbon cutting
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce welcomed the Idaho Club golf resort with a ribbon cutting on Monday, May 8. The Idaho Club invited members of the media, area...
Category: Sports and Outdoors
SPOT Bus eyes expansion to Bonners Ferry
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff For the better part of a decade, SPOT has been linking together the communities of Dover, Sandpoint, Ponderay and Kootenai. Thanks to an experimental route currently under way, Bonners...
Turf vs. grass: the debate for the playing surface at Memorial Field
By Cameron Rasmusson and Ben Olson Reader Staff A debate over whether to use natural or artificial turf in the Memorial Field renovation project is forcing people to question the park’s place in the...
Maintaining the balance
By Justin Henney Reader Contributor Editor’s Note: The following piece of writing was submitted over a month ago but we have been backlogged with content, so we were unable to run it while the...
Making a difference, one ski lap at a time
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s easy to grow disillusioned with the world, it seems. Then you meet someone who changes your life. For Matt Gillis, meeting young Henry Sturgis—otherwise known as “Hank”—was the...
Falcon goes to graduate school
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Saying goodbye is always hard to do, but for Lilly Mitsui, it’s part of raising puppies. For a year-and-a-half, Mitsui has raised Falcon for Canine Companions, a nationwide company...
Spring backcountry touring tips
By Jeff Thompson Reader Columnist Jeff Thompson from the Idaho Panhandle National Forest Avalanche Center here. This is our last update of the season. Spring is generally a safer time to travel in the...
Why Wilderness?
By Phil Hough Reader Contributor When I was 10 years old, my dad and I took a 10-day adventure along the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a canoe route established in northern Maine by that state’s...
It’s almost mushroom-harvesting time
By Reader Staff As the snow finally recedes and the temperatures warm, it is time to start thinking about harvesting mushrooms. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests welcomes mushroom harvesting, and offers some tips and...
Outdoorsmen speak for public lands
By Scott Taylor Reader Contributor For two decades, the world’s largest trade exhibition of outdoor gear manufacturers, the Outdoor Retailer (OR) show, has met twice a year at the Salt Palace Convention Center, bringing...
