Even with our modern all-wheel-drive vehicles and decent pavement, getting up Mount Spokane to go skiing can be a challenging journey. The road, mentioned in the Jan. 4 column, is a challenge undertaken when you want to carve the snow. John Linder, who grew up on the mountain after his parents homesteaded and logged the area, plowed and cleared the road dozens of times as a park ranger, deputy sheriff and businessman. He opened a store just outside Mount Spokane State Park, long the road to the top. He also conceived of a lodge and ski hill at the store site, luring folks to stop and play on a small roadside slow that he cleared. The result was Linder's Lodge and Linder's Ski Bowl. The ski area is now a commercial tubing operation and the long is still open for business. See Monday's Spokesman-Review to read about the industrious John D. Linder and his lodge. 

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