BICYCLING -- Riverside State Park was bustling with bicycles over the holiday weekend for the annual 24 Hours Round the Clock Mountain Bike Race. The event attracted 720 riders including 123 teams and 34 solos, plus a big crowd of supporters camped out for the…
FISHING -- We'll know by fall if the attempt to salvage court-settlement-doomed steelhead smolts by stocking them in Sprague Lake will be good for fishermen -- or whether the 369,000 million smolts being stocked will simply be dying and feeding bass, gulls, cormorants and pelicans.…
WATERSPORTS – Boaters can find out where to launch their boats or tie up for a weekend on the water with Washington Water Cruiser, a new FREE app launched by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). The app maps all state-owned boat launches…
RIVER RUNNING -- Rafters and paddlers soon will be riding the rails to a popular floating and whitewater stretch of Idaho's North Fork Payette River. On Saturday, May 31, the Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Thunder Mountain Line, will debut the…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
