Out & About

OUTMEDIA

Guide a new high for Idaho climbers

Book: “Climber’s Guide to North Idaho and the Cabinet Wilderness,” by Thaddeus Laird (Keokee, 200 pages, $17.50).

Fifteen years after the last serious work to chronicle the Panhandle region’s rock routes, a lifelong climber settled in Sandpoint to research, revisit and rewrite details on the best routes from Q’emiln Park at Post Falls to Chimney Rock in the Selkirks and beyond.

In 2001, after making his first climb in the Selkirks – the 11 5.7+ South Face Standard Route on Harrison Peak, Laird vowed to climb all the peaks he could see from the summit, and more. The fruits of his obsession, plus his interviews with local experts, have just been published.

Even Randall Green, who wrote the last guidebook for this area, said Laird’s new guide “updates forgotten and out-of-print route information and reminds climbers of the wondrous granite faces hidden in (the Cabinet Mountains and) North Idaho’s fabulous back- and front-country.”

OUTSTANDING

Field & Stream honors ‘heroes’

A Washington high school science teacher and an Oregon computer engineer are among six Heroes of Conservation from across the nation honored in the October issue of Field & Stream magazine.

Harlan Kredit, Lynden, Wash., has focused his science curriculum for 30 years on the local Fishtrap Creek watershed, where his students have raised more than two million salmon in a student-built hatchery and planted 15,000 trees.

Brian Maguire of Portland co-founded Backcountry Hunters and Anglers to lobby for protecting wild non-motorized-access areas that are critical to wildlife.

“Sportsman don’t just care about conservation, they act on it,” said F&S Editor Sid Evans.

OUTBREAK

Free camping offered

Saturday is National Public Lands Day. Celebrate with free camping at most public lands facilities.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

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

(* indicates best days.)

Through Sept. 30

Today

10:45 p.m., 11:20 a.m.

* Monday

– 11:35 p.m.

* Tuesday

– 11:50 p.m.

* Wednesday

12:25 a.m., 12:50 p.m.

Thursday

1:15 a.m., 1:40 p.m.

* Friday

2:10 a.m., 2:40 p.m.

* Saturday

3:05 a.m., 3:35 p.m.

Next Sunday

4:05 a.m., 4:35 p.m.

See the Hunting-Fishing Report every Friday in Sports