Your Outdoors Photos: August

The Inland Northwest is full of flora, fauna, waters, scenery and active people out to savor it all. Please visit this gallery regularly to share photos of your wild experiences, learning moments, hot discoveries, favorite trips. Help us build a visual tour of what's so great about the outdoors in this region through all four seasons. This photo gallery will be an inspiration to some people. To others it will be a reminder of why we love to live here -- and get outside as much as possible.

NOTE: Before photos show up in the reader photo gallery, they must be approved by an editor. If yours does not show up immediately, fear not. The only likely delay is that an editor has not had a chance to approve new photo submissions yet. Thanks for participating!

Upload your photo

Section:Reader Photo

Fri., Aug. 1, 2014

Photos in This Album

Urban Coyote Taken near the falls in Maribeau Park early August 2013. Have seen a coyote in that area several times.

Photographer: Rich Batchelder
Downtown Spokane as seen from Riverfront Park (looking south), Summer 2014

Photographer: Ryan Burkey
Northern Lights grace the sky, as seen at 2 a.m. on Aug. 27 from beach at Hills Resort on Priest Lake.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin, Spokane
The water's great at Priest Lake.

Photographer: Vickie Garner Sienknecht
Mountain goats on Scotchman Peak were a little aggressive last week, but still impressive.

Photographer: John Stucke
I love my huckleberries.

Photographer: Vickie Garner Sienknecht
Mule deer buck hops fences to snack on apples in Spokane Valley backyards.

Photographer: Charles Taggart
This guy showed up when it was 101 to cool down at 6 pm then came back the next day thinking that when he layed down it would do the same but no luck .

Photographer: Richard Warrington
This guy showed up when it was 101 to cool down at 6 pm then came back the next day thinking that when he layed down it would do the same but no luck .

Photographer: Richard Warrington
In Spokane you can walk here. Centennial Trail offers more to see! Kendall Yards looks great..

Photographer: Kenny Melchisedeck
Evening dust cloud engulfs Ritzville area, generated by Aug. 12, 2014 thunder storms.

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Collecting pollen on a hot August day.

Photographer: Heidi Harbert
My Brother, Father and I were backpacking in the Clear Water National Forest. High mountain lake (name unknown) at roughly 6000 plus ft. In elevation.

Photographer: Shaun Rogers
At the Millwood Park Splash Pad, my son Avery and my niece, Kaida.

Photographer: Misty O'Brien
We went camping in Leavenworth and walked the trails through the park. This is a photo of my three year old son, Avery.

Photographer: Misty O'Brien
My sister and I brought our kids to Dishman Hills for the day. This is my lovely son, Ian, a seven year old with high functioning autism, enjoying the outdoors with a canister of bubbles.

Photographer: Misty O'Brien
My sister and I brought our kids to Dishman Hills for the day. I snapped this candid photo of my sister and her daughter.

Photographer: Misty O'Brien
This doe in our campsite in Northern Idaho this summer 2014, did not seem to be afraid of humans. She gave me a beautiful pose!

Photographer: Vicki Magee
Eskimo Roll Liberty Lake WA taken during a non smoky July

Photographer: Bill Sawatzki
The camera hadn't even cooled down from photographing the Red Sun setting on Aug. 9 when I turned and saw the Fire Moon rising.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning
Looking up at Mix Up Peak near Johannesburg Mountain in the northwest Cascades.

Photographer: Joshua Miller
Lower Salmon River near where it drains into the Snake. Maybe I would have gotten more distance if I had been flapping my arms!

Photographer: Wayne Wright
This is a creek flowing across the Pacific Crest Trail in the Cascades (right around Cutthroat Pass) which I hiked on a few years ago.

Photographer: Joshua Miller
The sunset from the side of Hunt Peak at Priest Lake, Idaho. Priest lake on the bottom.

Photographer: Joshua Miller
Took my nephew Alexander Benedict backpacking for his first time to Hunt Lake (Near Priest Lake). Picture was taken on August 1, 2014. He spent the night in this hammock, and can't wait to go again.

Photographer: Ryan Brodwater
This is an easterly view of the ridgeline headwall from the top of Wigwams Mountain near Priest Lake, Idaho.

Photographer: Joshua Miller
Crabbing in Westport, Washington

Photographer: Cara Doherty
The huckleberry hand of a huckleberry hound.

Photographer: Jim Mellen
Charli just taking a break from swimming, enjoying the hot August sun. Spokane River August 4th, 2014

Photographer: Scott White
Fishing Cougar Bay in Coeur d'Alene lake on August 4th, 2014. Good father and son time. Nice Northern Pike

Photographer: Scott White
Momma and the kids at Lion Head water slides near Priest Lake. Fun spot to cool off!

Photographer: Wayne Wright (out in the Valley)
Second Beach near La Push, Wa. Late July 2014

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Me and my granddaughter beachcombing on Ruby Beach in the Olympic National Park, late July 2014

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Sunset over the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge last Sunday night.

Photographer: Theresa