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Learning Young At Silver Mountain

Although the snow shows no sign of letting up in the mountains of the Inland Northwest, there was some grass poking through the snow on Dec. 26, 2009, when Northwest Elite Photographer Chris Thompson snapped this photo on Silver Mountain. Chris reports to Facebook Friends that he hated "using polarizers on portraits, but I had to; just to get some color out of the sky." You can see more of Chris's photography on his Facebook site and on Northwest Elite Photography.

Also: Visitors to OnTheSnow.com rated Lookout Pass ski area on the Idaho-Montana border as their “Favorite Family-Friendly Resort” in the Pacific Northwest. The data period for voting was January 2011 when a Nielsen audit showed 3.4 million unique browsers logged in to the world's most visited Web platform/Rich Landers, Outdoors blow. More here.

Question: When did you learn to ski or snowboard? And where?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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