Your Outdoors Photos: October 2016

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Thu., Sept. 29, 2016

Photos in This Album

These horses were playing in the deep snow, rolling and running. Taken west of Spokane, horse country, January 10

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Sunrise at the falls in beautiful downtown Spokane!

Photographer: Mark Fitterer
Lake Easton 10.27.2016

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
Last call for autumn colors at Nishinomiya Japanese Garden at Manito Park.

Photographer: Craig Goodein
Manning Rye covered bridge near Colfax, Washington on a beautiful autumn day.

Photographer: Michael Gass
Oct 26, 2016, Fall colors in Brown's Addition

Photographer: Kara Czernik
Rainy day in Brown's Addition, Oct 26, 2016

Photographer: Kara Czernik
more trees at Fairchild , Oct 25, 2016

Photographer: Kara Czernik
trees at Fairchild AFB

Photographer: Kara Czernik
leaf canopy at Fairchild AFB, October 25, 2016

Photographer: Kara Czernik
Manito Park

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Coopers Hawk looking for his dinner in North Spokane. Photo taken on October 25, 2016.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Snow geese arriving at Slavin Conservation Area near Cheney. They rest here every year for a few days and then move on to their next migration stop-over. Taken October 25th

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Fall colors of Spokane taken from Palisades Park on Monday, October24, 2016.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Fall colors of Spokane taken from Palisades Park on Monday, October24, 2016.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Panorama of Spokane from on top of Palisades Park on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Skiing off Horton Ridge in the Idaho Selkirk Mountains toward Priest Lake in the distance.

Photographer: Chris Linden
Beautiful water reflection In Idaho's CDA River.

Photographer: Lori Pence
This weekend my husband was elk hunting and I was hunting with my camera up the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Beautiful fall colors in Idaho.

Photographer: Lori Pence
Taken Oct. 23 along the Centennial Trail near Camp Sekani. The angles lined up just right, and the old stump completed the composition of this shot.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
Taken October 23rd along the Centennial Trail, these leaves were quite photogenic as they floated on the river.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
"October Reflections" was taken along the Spokane River Centennial Trail near Camp Sekani.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
Fall in the Cascades: Hiking in the Cascades outside Leavenworth WA on Oct. 5 was overcast and rainy, but offered some impressive sights.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Between fall storms on the Pend Oreille River, 19-10-2016

Photographer: Karen Soenke
A pair of Wood Ducks they are so pretty the drakes are like hand painted toys. Cannon park 10 19 16

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
Fallen Fall leaves. Took this on October 6th, 2016, at our local park here in Odessa, Wa. As my 3.5 yr. old ran around the park, I played with the leaves.

Photographer: Becky Nelson
Skiers signing Mt Rainiers guest book.

Photographer: TR Page
Fall colors up on Mt Rainier

Photographer: TR Page
Maks Page enduring the long walk up Mt Rainier to get October checked off his list for "Turns all Year"

Photographer: TR Page
Two gulls at Hug Beach, Oregon

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Finch Arboretum is starting to show fall colors.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Finch Arboretum is starting to show fall colors.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Nez Perce in the Lewiston parade Sept 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
A dog happy to be in the Lewiston parade Sept 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
A collapsed old house near the Blue Mountains August 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
The Grande Ronde River meets the Snake River

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Mt Rainer July 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Glacier National Park August 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Selway August 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Fall colors in prime at downtown Joseph Oregon taken Sept 2016

Photographer: Mary Hayward
August 2016 Glacier National Park Mountain goat grazing on wild flowers

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Architecture through architecture of the coolest building in Washington state! The photo was taken through the arches on the Federal Building's roof.

Photographer: William Swanson
Larch turning gold in Kettle River Range off U.S. 2 near Sherman Pass.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Ferry County Railtrail approach to tunnel in autumn morning light.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning
Finch Arboretum fall foliage is breathtaking. New young plants and tree are protected with coverings.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Taken at daybreak on the Icicle River near Leavenworth, Oct. 5, 2016.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Early morning on the Icicle River near Leavenworth, Oct. 6, 2016

Photographer: Cindy Miller
A cool evening on the football field. The mist is rolling in.

Photographer: Tosh Swain
South of Uniontown, double rainbow.

Photographer: Mary Hayward
Sunset over Flathead River in Hungry Horse, MT. Oct. 1, 2016 - Near Glacier National Park.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Beginnings of fall at Glacier National Park. October 1, 2016 - South shore of Lake MacDonald from the Going to the Sun Road.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Pacific Crest Trail north of Rainy Pass in October.

Photographer: Tanner Grant
A great gray owl hunts in silence through a forest in southwestern Montana.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
A male wood duck floats upon autumn reflections at Cannon Park in Spokane. I captured the image on Oct. 1.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
American Falls yesterday. 10-02-2016

Photographer: Karen Soenke
Deer, east side Of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho

Photographer: David Taylor
The season is changing, drive through Sherman Pass

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Autumn aspen in the road.

Photographer: Carol Christensen
Chipmunk eating mountain ash berries at Mount Spokane State Park.

Photographer: Teresa Gort
Fall steelheading on the Grande Ronde River.

Photographer: John Kruse
Mountain ash brightens autumn hikes in the region's mountains.

Photographer: Rich Landers
The old Govan schoolhouse

Photographer: TD Cole
Sunrise, Cougar Bay, Lake Coeur d' Alene.

Photographer: David Taylor
I caught a meteor shooting just north of Post Falls late Wednesday night. It was one of the neatest things I've ever seen!

Photographer: Tiffany Hansen
Last paddle. 9.25.16 Upper Twin, Kootenai co.

Photographer: Bob Salsbury