WINTERSPORTS -- Ski season isn't quite here but ski movie season is. Here's what's scheduled at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane in the next month: Saturday, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. -- Inspired Ski Movie Tour, featuring guest speakers Henrik Harlaut, 2X X-Games gold medalist,…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The trail cam video of an Okanogan County black bear turning a scented tree into a massage parlor (at right) has been amusing thousands of viewers since it was posted this week by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Scott Fitkin.…
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Just as the leaves are changing changing color on the trees this month, a member of the grouse family is slowly changing colors to eventually blend into its mountain wintering areas. White-tailed ptarmigan are the species you're most likely to see in…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.