Bringing sustainability to the slopes
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nearly two decades ago, David Rogers began designing and building bamboo fly rods. Though his interest in fly fishing played a part in the venture, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nearly two decades ago, David Rogers began designing and building bamboo fly rods. Though his interest in fly fishing played a part in the venture, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Jason Welker
Reader Contributor
It’s hard to imagine, but ski season is right around the corner. With two new lifts to shuttle skiers from Cedar Park to the top …
By Tom Eddy
Reader Columnist
There can be no avalanche without the failure of a weak layer within the snowpack. In an ideal world, all of our snow would fall …
By Jeff Thompson
Reader Contributor
Have you been out enjoying this new snow we’ve been getting? We have! And we at the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center thought it’d be the …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Silver Mountain in Kellogg is under new ownership, although it’s not yet clear who that is.
The Spokesman-Review reports that the ski resort, owned for …
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