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MAST: School for Adventurers in the BC Rockies

“Head down! Head DOWN!” the instructor yells across the water. A head bobs out of the river just long enough to gasp for air, then ...
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Photo of climbers kicking steps on Kilimanjaro.

Climbing Kilimanjaro: The One-item Bucket List

Some months ago, my friend Scott was diagnosed with terminal cancer. It’s the kind of news that would have me buried in pints of ice ...
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Photo of the view from the Mount Spokane Fire Lookout.

Trail Running Trials

I was new to trail running. Before I moved to Spokane, my race of choice was a smooth, flat half marathon. My familiar turf was ...
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Photo of sunset over the Palouse.

Learning to Love Old Places in a New Way

I was racing against the sun, and I was losing. My progress up the trail could only be described as an awkward shuffle—half-jog, half-walk. My ...
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Exclusion of a Finer Grain

  I move carefully through the rocky Red Banks section on Mt. Shasta after summiting in the early morning. Traversing a little lower to one ...
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Photo: Bea Lackaff

Month of Service

The Forest Service lady’s eyes shone like moss agates. “You’d be PERFECT,” she announced, “to be our permit host at Cache Creek—on the Snake River—for ...
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Photo courtesy of Sarah Parker Lucas.

Home Hill

We tend to think of our home ski hills in terms of specific days: the late-winter day it dumped an unforecast 14 inches; the day ...
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Photo by Harley McAllister.

Cherishing Our Public Lands

Many of my favorite memories took place in some part of our nation’s public lands—lands held in the public trust for the benefit of all ...
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Photo by Brad Northrup.

Passing the Torch

As the school year came to a close, my family and I were sitting around the dinner table discussing plans for the summer. Hanging out ...
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