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Muscle-powered skiers find powder in high Selkirks

Jason Hershey makes turns in mid-October fresh snow from Mount Roothaan toward Priest Lake in the distance. (Chris Linden)
Jason Hershey makes turns in mid-October fresh snow from Mount Roothaan toward Priest Lake in the distance. (Chris Linden)

WINTERSPORTS -- Fall colors are overrated if you're a die-hard backcountry skier or split-boarder looking for whiteness.  

Jason Hershey and his powder-hound friends trekked up from Priest Lake to Horton Ridge and the slopes of Mount Roothaan this weekend to carve tracks and usher in the winter season.

Be on the lookout for denning grizzlies, boys.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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