Out & About
OUTRAGEOUS –A new snow-sports thriller is coming to Spokane on the 61st annual Warren Miller tour Wednesday and Thursday, 7:30 p.m., in the Fox’s Martin Woldson Theater.
“Wintervention” features steep-running, powder-busting skiers and boarders, including Washington native Andy Mahre and Olympians Jonny Mosely and Lindsay Vonn.
$20.50 tickets are offset by free lift tickets to Mount Spokane and four British Columbia resorts, plus discount gear coupons.
Info: Fox Theatre, 624-1200.
• The show’s also coming to North Idaho College on Nov. 21; WSU on Dec. 9-10.
Former Rainier ranger dies in Tibet fall
OUTCRY – Joe Puryear, 1990s climbing ranger at Mount Rainier National Park noted for climbs around the world, recently died in a fall on a remote mountain in Tibet.
Rainier’s lead climbing ranger David Gottlieb was climbing with Puryear, park officials said.
Gottlieb said Puryear broke through a cornice and died in a 1,500-foot fall on the 24,170-foot mountain, Labuche Kang.
Puryear lived in Leavenworth with his wife, Michelle.
Fee-free holiday at federal sites
OUTDEAL – Day-use fees will be waived at most national parks, forests and other federal recreation sites on Thursday in honor of Veterans Day.
Wolf plan remarks available online
OUTPROCESS – Public comments ranging from scientific to inane on Washington’s draft wolf management plan are available for review on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website.
More than 60,000 comments are categorized, which allows one to key on letters from government officials, hunting groups or conservation organizations – wait, aren’t most large hunting groups also conservation organizations?
The bulk of the “comments” are comprised of 57,564 signatures on a single petition from the Defenders of Wildlife.
Hundreds of people signed onto form letters or postcards in organized mailings.
But 430 people wrote individual letters, 36 legislators filed comments, 608 e-mails were filed and 224 people testified at public meetings.
The Fish & Wildlife Commission expects to act on the plan sometime next year.
The draft plan’s preferred option calls for a minimum of 15 breeding pairs in three regions of the state for three consecutive years before lifting state protections and allowing wolf numbers to be managed.
On the Net: http://tinyurl.com/WAwolf
Chadwick on wolverines
OUTREAD – Western Montana biologist Douglas H. Chadwick, a contributor to National Geographic, will present his latest book, The Wolverine Way, Friday, 7 p.m., at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Sullivan’s red wave
OUTSPAWN – Crimson kokanee are stacking up at the Harvey Creek Bridge at the south end of Sullivan Lake. Great viewing.