A Few Thoughts … On bad roads, mining and wilderness
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist Cliff Lake lies in a stone basin at the base of St. Paul Peak near the south end of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness (CWM). St. Paul towers over the tarn,...
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A few thoughts… About geology and resistance
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist Forty years ago, I brought a friend home who had grown up in a Texas city and never been to the Northwest. We drove north on I-15 to Butte, then...
Rotary donates $50K raised from CHAFE 150 to local school literacy program
The Sandpoint Rotary Club recently delivered a $50,000 check to the Lake Pend Oreille School District to support its “Everyone Graduates a Reader” initiative. The funds were raised from the 17th annual CHAFE 150...
Voices in the Wilderness
Stone Koivu Reader Staff The crisp morning air was heavy with the pine aroma as I entered the backcountry, my boots sinking into the wet earth. The sun was just beginning to rise, golden...
Voices in the Wilderness
By Marlin Thomas Reader Contributor A promising forecast had me excited about getting into the Cabinet Mountains, despite having just finished a trip there 10 days earlier. And so, I found myself once again...
Emily Articulated: Scotchmans flyover
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I have always believed there is something magical on the knife’s edge between fear and fun, anxiety and elation. Moments spent suspended between the safety of what we know and...
The art of the challenge
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Aurora Brown’s art studio exudes the kind of warmth only a home studio can. Cats and dogs meander across the hardwood floor as the tea kettle begins to boil....
