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Your Outdoors Photos: June

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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Photos in This Album

  • A solar rainbow. Summer solstice 2014. Taken at Palisades Park.

    Photographer: Cindy Fine

  • Whitetail doe and fawn in South Spokane, June 26.

    Photographer: Mary Becker Weathers

  • Making snow fly on the ID/MT divide in early June.

    Photographer: Mike PanhandleBackcountry.com

  • Bright white day old snow on June 20, near Eagle Cliff Peak on the ID/MT Divide.

    Photographer: Mike PanhandleBackcountry.com

  • Going to great heights: Tom Rigles treks along the south flank of Mount Adams on June 11. Rigles has been on skis, on snow, at least once a month for 175 consecutive months – for more than 14 years.

    Photographer: Bob Drzymkowski

  • Carrie Ringo Carlquist and other Spokane Mountain enjoy spectacular views during their slog up the Muir Snowfield the day before they began their summit bid on Mount Rainier. That's the Tatoosh Range, Goat Rocks Wilderness and Mount Adams in the background.

    Photographer: Steve Reynolds

  • A wild turkey hen marches her newly hatched brood of eight chicks in the foothills of Mount Spokane on June 22.

    Photographer: Ron Dexter

  • I often get photos of cougars on a trail cam near my (Newman Lake-area)home, but on June 3 I got two in one shot.

    Photographer: Robert Bly

  • Picture of the Odessa Towers with my wonderful wife Tracy looking on. Fun hike with lots of ticks!

    Photographer: Wayne Wright

  • Eagle nest, Davenport, WA 6-14-14

    Photographer: Toni Piacquaddio

  • Davenport, WA 6-14-14. Came upon a pond out in a pasture with an Eagle nest in one of the trees. Dad Eagle was circling the nest above me.

    Photographer: Toni Piacquaddio

  • Baby blackbirds found in our 5th wheel hitch, end of May.

    Photographer: Michelle Sharpe

  • Coyote makes off with dinner to-go at Yellowstone National Park.

    Photographer: Scott Wolff

  • An osprey delivers a meal for newly hatched chicks.

    Photographer: Craig Goodwin

  • Glacier lilies bloom soon after snow left this stretch of the trail to Chilco Mountain.

    Photographer: David Taylor

  • Spokane Mountaineers leader Lindsay Morgan Chutas at the Lunch Counter Camp during a weekened club climb of Mount Adams; Mount Hood in background.

    Photographer: Steve Reynolds

  • Whitetail fawn: "Maybe if I lay really, really flat in this grass that big, ugly photographer guy won't see me."

    Photographer: J. Foster Fanning

  • A family of burrowing owls in Othello, Washington.

    Photographer: Craig Goodwin

  • Robin chicks.

    Photographer: Steve Gilbertson

  • Bitterroots blooming at upper Lincoln Park.

    Photographer: Chantelle Flint

  • Biking the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes.

    Photographer: Nora Searing

  • Remnants of rain in lupine.

    Photographer: Renée Roehl

  • Field of camas, Weippe Prairie, Idaho. May 24th.

    Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel

  • Towell Falls of Rock Creek in BLM's Escure Ranch south of Sprague in first week of June.

    Photographer: Craig Andersen

  • Hog Canyon Falls

    Photographer: Eric Blauer

  • South Hill colors after the thunder showers Tuesday!

    Photographer: Skye Alvarez

  • After yesterday's morning sprinkle (South Hill)

    Photographer: Skye Alvarez

  • Last weeks morning walk at Manito Park.

    Photographer: Skye Alvarez

  • Morning walk at Manito Park.

    Photographer: Skye Alvarez

  • Sunset on Upper Priest Lake. Memorial Day Weekend. Geisinger's Campground

    Photographer: Bob Salsbury

  • Red-tailed hawk landing in ponderosa pine near Curlew Lake.

    Photographer: J. Foster Fanning

  • This was taken yesterday (June 2) in the thoroughfare at Priest Lake. It was an unusual trip since we saw no wildlife, but no people either. We felt like we were the only ones in the world at that time! We were chased home by approaching storms.

    Photographer: Jan Erickson

  • Short lived Iris close-up out in the Valley.

    Photographer: Wayne Wright

  • Hiking at Steamboat Rock State Park.

    Photographer: Dolly Owen

  • Bicyclists had Glacier Park's Going to the Sun Road all to themselves on the first day of June.

    Photographer: Jim Mellen

  • On the Mountain in June

    Photographer: Breezy

  • Balsam wood flowering.

    Photographer: Breezy

  • Bitterroots blooming at Drumheller Springs.

    Photographer: Kevin Brownlee

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