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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 ...
Ammi Midstokke
June 18, 2018
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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 ...
Ammi Midstokke
May 22, 2018
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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 ...
Lisa Laughlin
April 30, 2018
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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 ...
Paul Chisholm
March 31, 2018
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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 ...
Summer Hess
February 16, 2018
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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 ...
Bea Lackaff
December 28, 2017
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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 ...
Aaron Theisen
November 30, 2017
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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 ...
Harley McAllister
August 31, 2017
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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 ...
Brad Northrup
July 31, 2017
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