Out & About

OUTDO

Join group backing Fish Lake Trail

Momentum is building to develop the unfinished portions of the Fish Lake Trail for an uninterrupted rail-trail link from Spokane to Cheney and the Columbia Plateau Trail.

Get progress updates and learn how everyone could do a little to help pave the way starting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, at the Community Building, 35 W. Main in Spokane. See maps, hear speakers and eat hors d’oeuvres!

The evening features several trails groups, including the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, that are helping city and county parks departments create a trails plan to link parks and other attractions.

Info: Inland Northwest Trails Coalition, (509) 435-1270 or www.inlandnorthwesttrails.org.

OUTSHOW

Snow sports display

What: Spokane Snow Show.

When: Next Sunday, noon-7 p.m.

Where: Big Easy Concert Hall, Sprague and Monroe

Who: Inland Northwest Ski Association event featuring ski areas, gear from area shops and the premier of the latest Teton Gravity Research ski-and-board film, “Anomaly,” to be shown next door at the Met.

Cost: $5, kids 12 and under free, and free for area season pass holders or for people with $14 tickets to the ski film.

Info: www.spokanesnowshow.com

OUTPEOPLE

Climbing’s top man coming to Spokane

The mountaineering chance of a lifetime is coming to Spokane this week.

Ed Viesturs, 46, the only American to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks said he will be at The Met “to recount my 30 years of climbing, focusing on the 8,000-meter peaks.”

That’s a lot of ground and thin air to cover.

Only about a dozen climbers have scaled the Big 14, and Viesturs, is one of only five to do it without using bottled oxygen.

His 2005 retirement from Himalayan mountaineering, announced after he bagged Anapurna, appears short-lived.

“I may go back to Everest, not as a personal endeavor, but as a guide,” he said last week from his home in Bainbridge Island. “It’s a different attitude. Everest is still Everest, and it’s still a great place to go.

“If I want to avoid crowds, I’ll go somewhere else. I’ve been to those places, too.”

When: Friday, 7 p.m., at the Met.

Tickets: $10 at Mountain Gear or $12 through TicketsWest, 325-SEAT.

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 Oct. 15

Today

1:50 a.m. 12:10 p.m.

Monday

2:45 a.m. 12:50 p.m.

Tuesday

3:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday

4:45 a.m. 2:10 p.m.

* Thursday

5:45 a.m. 2:50 p.m.

* Friday

6:40 a.m. 3:30 p.m.

* Saturday

7:35 a.m. 4:10 p.m.

Next Sunday

8:25 a.m. 4:50 p.m.