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OUTHIKE

Hikers join ‘Century Club’

Ladies and gentlemen, please join in a toast. If you prefer Gatorade or sipping out of a Camelbak, fine.

Most successful people – at least the ones adventurers would be honored to know – are willing to risk setting lofty goals and enduring the step-by-step of achieving them.

Coeur d’Alene-area hikers Dorothy Jacklin, 68, and Sharon Morrison, 62, didn’t choose a goal with an easy route. Instead they hiked over high passes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, tramped through grizzly country in the Valhallas, scattering rattlesnakes and parting clouds of mosquitoes on dozens of other trails along the way.

After five years of effort, Jacklin and Morrison reached their goal this summer, joining the exclusive Hikers Century Club for the handful of hikers who have completed all the routes featured in the walker’s Bible for this region, “100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest.”

The ladies are role models for others who want to walk the walk. They hiked more than 1,050 miles in four states and British Columbia.

OUTCRY

Unhappy returns

No more than 10 sockeye salmon are expected to swim 900 miles and climb 6,500 feet up the Columbia and Snake rivers this season to reach their native spawning grounds near Sawtooth Hatchery and Redfish Lake in Idaho.

This fabled “red fish” run that migrates farther and higher than any other sockeye run in the world, numbered more than 4,300 in the mid-1950s, before the Snake River dams were built.

Info: Save Our Wild Salmon, (509) 747-2030, www.wildsalmon.org.

OUTKAYAK

Women paddlers

What: Women-only kayak clinic.

Who: Conducted by North Idaho College Outdoor Pursuits.

When: Thursdays Sept. 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: NIC beach.

Details: For women of all abilities, course will tour Lake Coeur d’Alene as instructors cover kayaking basics, including paddle strokes, water currents and safety tips. Cost: $80.

Preregister, (208) 769-7809.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory list peak fishing times. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after given times. Applies to all time zones.

(* indicates best days.)

Through Sept. 3

Today

3:48 p.m., 5:30 a.m.

Monday

4:29 p.m., 6:20 a.m.

Tuesday

5:12 p.m., 7:10 a.m.

Wednesday

5:59 p.m., 8:10 a.m.

Thursday

6:51 p.m., 9:05 a.m.

* Friday

7:47 p.m., 9:55 a.m.

* Saturday

8:46 p.m., 10:45 a.m.

Next Sunday

9:47 p.m., 11:35 a.m.