Inner City Outings director Chris Bachman
“We must offer kids something if we expect them to turn off TV, have a connection to nature and be respectful of the environment when they grow up,” Chris Bachman said, summarizing his devotion to taking underprivileged kids on outoor trips. In September, four years after founding Spokane’s Inner City Outings program, Bachman, 44, was honored at the Sierra Club’s national convention with the 2010 Madelyn Pyeatt Award for working with youth. With five certified leaders plus volunteers, he organizes about 16 outings a year to immerse kids ages 8-12 in nature-based education along with activities such as hiking, paddling and snowshoeing.
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Chris Bachman, director of the Sierra Club Inner City Outings program in Spokane, leads a group of kids 8-12 years old to a cruise boat at the Coeur d'Alene Resort docks on Dec. 18, 2010, before embarking on a cruise to watch bald-eagles.
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review
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Chris Bachman, director of the Sierra Club Inner City Outings program in Spokane, greets the kids and adult volunteers as they board a cruise boat for a bald-eagle-watching tour at Lake Coeur d'Alene.
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review
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Chris Bachman, director of the Sierra Club Inner City Outings program in Spokane, takes a break with a few of the 100 the kids from the West Central Neighborhood and Audubon Elementary School boarding for a Dec. 18, 2010, tour-boat cruise to observe the annual bald eagle gathering at Lake Coeur d'Alene. This trip is one of about 16 outdoor activities ICO leads each year.
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review