OUTDOORS -- Joel Connelly of Seattlepi.com wrote this commentary today, contrasting Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson's efforts to build schools in Central Asia with the style of another famous climber -- Sir Edmund Hillary. Read my earlier post with links to Mortenson's response…
FAMILIES OUTDOORS -- If you're lucky enough to still have kids around the house, don't let another season go buy without building some sort of outdoor family tradition: Something they can count on year after year, whether it's in person or in their memories. Something…
HIKING -- While wildflowers are just getting brave enough to emerge, the Columbia Basin, as usual has a jump on the much of the region. Here's a report from John Echelbarger, who hiked Sunday at Steamboat Rock State Park on Banks Lake. "There was a…
OUTDOORS -- Greg Mortenson, the climber, philanthropist and author of Three Cups of Tea, has finally come forward to comment on the charges made agaist him Sunday by 60 Minutes and fellow author and climber Jon Krakauer. Mortenson's interview to address the world-wide buzz about…
HIKING -- Two people I know own dogs who recently encountered the defense mechanism of a porcupine along the South Hill bluff trails below High Drive. Let's think about this: Vet visit to remove quills, $150. Leash, $7. Go figure.
HIKING -- The list of area hiking clubs that ran with my Sunday Outdoors feature on hiking clubs left out one with some history, said Rosalyn Clark of Sandpoint. The Bonner County Monday Hikers have been heating their heels on roads and trails every Monday…
SKIING -- The Idaho Panhandle National Forests has scheduled a meeting today to discuss the proposed Lookout Pass Ski Area expansion. The meeting is set for 5 p.m. at the Forest Service office in Smelterville, Idaho. The Forest Service and Lookout Pass Ski Area are…
INVASIVE SPECIES – Sandpoint-area residents are organizing this week to pounce on an new unwanted aquatic invader to Lake Pend Oreille. A public work party to stop the spread of flowering rush will begin Saturday, 1 p.m., at Sandpoint City Beach. Like other aquatic invasive…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
