Your Outdoors photos: March

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Fri., March 14, 2014

Photos in This Album

I've returned to Palouse Falls several times especially to capture the Milky Way "arch" over what has just been declared as Washington's state waterfall.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin, Spokane
Rocky Mountain High! Glenn Potter at Pinnacle part of the Tatoosh range, a small range just to the South of Mount Rainier

Photographer: Anne Potter
Fishing with my wife, Bev, and friend Ed Stice, we caught these chinook salmon in Lake Coeur d'Alene in mid-March. We were trolling herring and plugs. The biggest was 12 pounds. Fishing has been little slow since high water, but is starting to pick up. Editor's note: The annual Red Covey Memorial Spring Salmon Derby at Lake Coeur d'Alene is set for April 12-13. Info: Fins & Feathers Tackle Shop, (208) 667-9304, www.Fins1.com

Photographer: Steve Croston of Kellogg
March 15-16 was an unforgettable weekend! I nailed Edward Abbey's quote with the perfect camp in view of Engle Peak (in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness): "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." Tons more photos to follow, but for now, I am exhausted. This was a 4000' climb on snowshoes with a 50 lb pack.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel, Newman Lake
Lookout on the river. Near downtown Spokane. Near nature, near perfect

Photographer: Robert Grant
Ski touring near Burke, Idaho (Stevens Peak in background) on 3/22/14

Photographer: Mike / PanhandleBackcountry.com
Mallards swimming in the spring behind our house. They're also on the hunt for a place to nest.

Photographer: Mike Schmeltzer
Early spring color, with native red dogwood and golden willows fronting evergreens.

Photographer: Mike Schmeltzer
A male wood duck in the spring behind my house. He and his mate have been hanging around looking for a spot to nest.

Photographer: Mike Schmeltzer
This huge bald eagle nest in a tree along the Little Spokane River near our house.

Photographer: Mike Schmeltzer
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Photographer: Gina Boysun
The buttercups are out

Photographer: John Stucke
Enjoying a little spring sunshine with my favorite buddy, Max, on the rocks overlooking the Spokane River near Centerplace in the Spokane Valley, March 24, 2014

Photographer: Vickie Sienknecht
Chimney Rock hides behind the shadow of a cloud atop the Idaho Selkirk Crest. Photo taken March 21, 2014.

Photographer: Brad Smith, Idaho Conservation League
Just in case

Photographer: Cheryl Ripley
Here's a selfie I took from Suicide Point during my 30-mile trail run up and back in the Seaport Striders annual Hells Canyon Adventure run on March 22. I've been wanting to do the event since I saw runners on the trail last year during a Spokane Mountaineers overnight backpacking trip. This time I came back and ran the distance in 8 hours.

Photographer: Holly Weiler
I joined the Seaport Striders annual Hells Canyon Adventure Run (March 22). Most people get on the chartered jet boat that takes them up to Sheep Creek below Hells Canyon Dam and then they run the trail (look for it at the right of the photo) back to their cars at Pittsburg Landing. I realized I could save $65 by not taking the boat shuttle, so I ran both ways: 30 miles in just shy of 8 hours.

Photographer: Holly Weiler
Hells Canyon sturgeon fishing it's a 7' 10"

Photographer: Michelle Peters
Deanna Kinziger of Lewiston captured this image of a great horned owl and its nestlings in the hollow of a tree while on an Audubon Society field trip along the Grande Ronde River. "Shows the importance of dead trees!" she said.

Photographer: Deanna Kinziger
This young moose was getting a little too comfortable with people and posing a hazard to the public and traffic on the South Hill, so the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department people tranquilized it and took it out in the mountains for release on Feb. 21. They were amazingly gentle and professional with the animal.

Photographer: From Shane O'Neill, Spokane
Sara Morrill, makes her debut run in the stern during a whitewater guide training course field trip on the Spokane River with Peak 7 Adventures. She safely steered her crew of volunteer veteran paddlers through the Bowl and Pitcher rapids in the high flows of March.

Photographer: Loran Kerrigan, Peak 7 Adventures
I doubt many people have seen a sunset over Mount Spokane quite like this! From Ken Vanden Heuvel of Newman Lake, from his March 15-16 snowshoe trek to the Engle Peak area of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel, Newman Lake
We skied up Lightning Creek near Clark Fork for the Wolverine Project sponsored by Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. Then we crossed Lightning Creek to put in a Wolverine bait station (to try to get trail cam images and hair samples for DNA testing). We had to cross Lightning Creek twice plus many small creek crossings on the way to the site. While we were on skis most of the time, I brought along rubber boots for some of the crossings. We had to climb down the snow to the creek and then climb back up the other side and put on our skis again. We did this in one day but it was a very long day.

Photographer: Jim Mellen, Sandpoint
I had a rare treat today (March 13). Came across a family of four river otters enjoying the warm, late winter's afternoon and nearly ice-free Kettle River.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning of Curlew
Mica Peak from the Palouse this evening (March 13).

Photographer: Aaron Theisen of Spokane
J. Foster Fanning of Curlew: “Working the lens trying to get a photo of this eagle in flight when the red-tailed hawk struck surprising both the eagle and the photographer. Caught this image of the birds disengaging.”

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning
We found a mountain lion track crossing the trail to Star Peak above the Clark Fork River on a recent hike with the Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness.

Photographer: Phil Hough