Out & About: Radical Reels coming to Sandpoint, Coeur d’Alene
OUTRAGEOUS – Eight high-adrenaline films featuring skiing, biking, riding, paddling and other white-knuckle pursuits from the Banff Mountain Film Festival are coming to North Idaho.
The Radical Reels film tour will show at 7 p.m. at:
• Oct. 2, Coeur d’Alene’s Kroc Center. Advance tickets at Zip’s Drive-in (715 Sherman Avenue), Vertical Earth, The Camera Corral and in Hayden at Two Wheeler Dealer.
• Oct. 3, Sandpoint’s Panida Theater. Advance tickets at Eichardts, Outdoor Experience and Burger Express, and in Bonners Ferry at Zip’s.
The package of films is geared to steady action with jaw-dropping bike jumps, nail-biting kayak drops and mind-blowing powder
Among the films:
“Valley Uprising – The Stonemasters,” Peter Mortimer’s Yosemite climbing documentary, which won the Grand Prize at the Banff Film Festival.
“Little Red Bus” pushes even the Banff Centre’s comfort zone on what a small group of alternative French athletes could do while traveling Europe.
Other films include “All My Own Stunts,” “Dream,” “Into the Ditch,” “The Unrideables: Alaska Range and Undead.”
Roskelley talks climbing at Whitworth event
OUTBOOKED – In honor of a new Whitworth Library collection, Spokane Mountaineer John Roskelley will present a free program, “From Annapurna to Seven Summits: Literature’s Influence on Me and on the Sport of Mountaineering,” on Friday, 7 p.m., in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre at Whitworth University.
Whitworth is celebrating the inauguration of the William C. Fix Mountaineering Collection. A reception will follow.
Roskelley, is a world-class climber and former Spokane County Commissioner. Fix is a Spokane investment advisor and longtime Spokane Mountaineer. Info: (509) 777-3207.
Fourth-graders special at national parks
OUTFREE – Your fourth- grader is the family’s free pass to the nation’s national parks and refuges.
Starting this month, the federal government is giving annual passes to fourth graders in an effort to get kids into the national parks and other federal lands to experience the outdoors and learn a little history and culture. The family gets to tag along.
Families without a fourth-grader must pay $80 for the annual pass, unless the family includes a senior citizen or member of the military, who get discounted annual passes.
The free passes are available online at everykidinapark.gov. Let the fourth-grader answer a few fun questions about outdoor adventures before printing a paper pass that you can print and use.
The printed pass can be traded in at a park for a plastic annual pass that’s the size of a credit card.