Glistening Mount Spokane pictured from Antoine Peak

HIKING — Holly Weiler chose to enjoy the spectacle of Wednesday morning’s new snow on 5,883-foot Mount Spokane (and the rest of the region) from a distance.

She went hiking around Antoine Peak Conservation Area instead.

The 1,076-acre preserve towers towers to elevation 3,373 feet above East Valley High School, protected as open space for the public and wildlife by the Spokane County Conservation Futures Program .

“It was gorgeous out today!” Weiler said in an bit of understatement. “There were coyote tracks all over the place.”