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Sat., Sept. 24, 2011

Fall foliage gets grip on Pend Oreille Divide

Trail 103 north of North Baldy Mountain near the border of the Colville National Forest and Kaniksu National Forest in Pend Oreille County. (Rich Landers)

HIKING -- This is my notion of crimson and gray: Fall huckleberries and granite.

I hiked the north-south divide between the Pend Oreille River and Priest Lake today, North Baldy to Kalispell Rock and back today. Total of 17 miles, temps in high 80s. Gorgeous.

A beer well earned.

Posted Sept. 24, 2011, 10:22 p.m.

By Rich Landers

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Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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