Your Outdoors Photos: February 2017

The Inland Northwest is full of flora, fauna, waters, scenery and active people out to savor it all. Please visit this gallery regularly to share photos of your wild experiences, learning moments, hot discoveries, favorite trips. Help us build a visual tour of what's so great about the outdoors in this region through all four seasons. This photo gallery will be an inspiration to some people. To others it will be a reminder of why we love to live here -- and get outside as much as possible.

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Tue., Jan. 31, 2017

Photos in This Album

Quartz outcropping at Saltese Uplands.

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Buttercup, Saltese Uplands.

Photographer: Robert Salsbury
Breaking trail in new snow on Mount Kit Carson in Mount Spokane State Park.

Photographer: Mike Berube
Rime coats the Vista House on top of Mount Spokane.

Photographer: Kristy Canright
Hiking White Bluff dunes area of the Hanford Reach National Monument.

Photographer: Shuwen Wang
Backcountry splitboarder Brett Chambers poses with Phoebe's Tip in the background in the Idaho Selkirk Mountains near Priest Lake on Feb. 11

Photographer: Jason Hershey
Splitboarder Brett Chambers checks out Phoebe's Tip in the Idaho Selkirk Mountains near Priest Lake on Feb. 11

Photographer: Jason Hershey
Spokane sunrise - Feb. 15.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Trumpeter swans at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Fire and Ice on Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Photographer: Tiffany Hansen
Ice mosaic on Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Photographer: Tiffany Hansen
Planes enjoying the frozen surface of Loon Lake, Washington - doing fly overs and touch downs on the ice.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Planes enjoying the frozen Loon Lake - doing fly overs and touch downs on the ice, Feb. 13.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Planes enjoying the frozen surface of Loon Lake, WA - doing fly overs and touch downs on the ice. REALLY!

Photographer: M J Lovell
Clumps of ice that formed on a bush with the melt and freeze we have been having lately. The bushes were outside my bedroom window at 1008 E Boone Ave, Spokane 99202 on February 9th

Photographer: Sue Orlowski
Go Zags!

Photographer: Lori Pence
Bohemian waxwing on ice-covered branch in Pend Oreille County

Photographer: Karen Soenke
Urban skiing allows us to enjoy our unique city in all its beauty no matter what the weather brings. Feb. 4 at High Bridge Park.

Photographer: Randy Belstad
Monroe Street Bridge.

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Feb. 2 was a fine day to enjoy the ice covered Centennial Trail to this panorama at the Deep Creek Overlook in Riverside State Park.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Every February the cedar waxwings return to our yard in Four Lakes, WA. On Feb. 1, a flock of 50 or more made their landing for a few hours.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Snowshoer's winter campsite on the crest of the Kettle River Range.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Palouse Falls in winter.

Photographer: Wes Hedrick
Young bull moose moves into neighborhood to do some pruning on Jan. 28.

Photographer: Tom Hall
The sun broke through the heavy cloud cover at the higher elevations, leaving behind the dreary, gray weather for a short time. Near Colbert, WA, Jan. 27

Photographer: Cindy Miller
Flicker enjoying a snack at my feeder.

Photographer: michael forster