Out & About

OUTSMART

Learn about snow before you go

Snowmobilers, skiers, and snowshoers heading into the winter backcountry should check out the excellent Web site created by our Canadian neighbors to deliver critical avalanche safety information, including online avalanche “first response” training.

Although not a substitute for field courses, the info is up-to-date, interactive and entertaining.

Share it with someone you want to see coming home alive.

Check it out: www.adventuresmart.ca/avalanche.php.

OUTDO

Highlights this week

Sea kayaking around Vancouver Island, free slide show by Roy Massena, for the Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club, Monday, 7 p.m., Corbin Community Center, 827 W. Cleveland Ave.

Big-game hunting for Rocky Mountain trophies, audio-visual seminar by Mike Eastman of Eastman’s Hunting Journal and TV show, Monday, 7 p.m., Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. Cost: $8.

Trekking in Nepal and traveling through India, free slide program by Jim and Lynn Pippard, Tuesday, 7 p.m., REI, 1125 N. Monroe.

OUTEAT

Salmon panel tails wild-game potluck

What: Wild Game Dinner and wild-salmon status discussion.

When: Thursday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Who: Sponsored by Hunting & Fishing Conservation Coalition

Where: Inland Northwest Wildlife Council Center, 6116 N. Market

Details: Potluck-style dinner (last year’s entrees included antelope kabobs, barbequed elk steaks, grilled yellowtail, moose meatballs, game bird and rabbit pot pies) followed by panel discussion focusing on how wild Snake River salmon runs could be restored while protecting farmers’ needs.

Didn’t fill your tag last season? Come anyway.

Speakers: Matt Yost of Idaho Steelhead & Salmon Unlimited, Sam Mace of Save Our Wild Salmon, plus a Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association representative.

RSVP: (509) 435-1270; www.huntfishconserve.org.

OUTFISH

Grande steelheading

With metalheads starting to move up the Grande Ronde River, Boggan’s Oasis is kicking off a steelhead derby Thursday through April 15.

Entry: $25. Prizes: $500 for heaviest fish and a drawing for a hog hunt.

Info: (509) 256-3372.

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 March 4

* Today

7:40 p.m., 8:05 a.m.

Monday

8:35 p.m., 9:05 a.m.

Tuesday

9:30 p.m., 9:55 p.m.

Wednesday

10:20 p.m., 10:40 a.m.

Thursday

11:05 p.m., 11:30 a.m.

Friday

Friday 11:50 p.m. —

Saturday

— 12:30 p.m.

Next Sunday

12:30 a.m. 12:55 p.m.

See the Hunting-Fishing Report

every Friday in Sports