Tagged: outdoors

Ben Olson / Community Happenings / Education / Featured / Health / Local charities / Opening Hearts and Minds / Pets & Animals / Sports and Outdoors / Volunteer Spotlight

March 22, 2025

Casting for a cause

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Sometimes, inspiration comes from unexpected places. When Jess Westbrook had the idea to use fly fishing as a tool to support children in foster care, …

Ben Olson / Conservation Corner / Featured / Local charities / Sports and Outdoors / Volunteer Spotlight

January 26, 2025

‘The lessons that wilderness can teach us’

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Phil Hough can pinpoint exactly when he fell in love with the wilderness.

He remembers paddling down the Allagash River in a canoe in the …

Arts & Culture / Community Happenings / Featured / Random Digital Madness / Sports and Outdoors

January 22, 2025

Winter hiking in the Scotchmans

By Reader Staff

Hiking season doesn’t have to end once the snow starts falling. Despite the low snow down low, the local mountain snowpack is looking strong. The winter hike …

Arts & Culture / Community Happenings / Featured / Movie Reviews / Movies and Theater / panida theater

January 20, 2025

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Panida for 30th annual showing

By Reader Staff

The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will return to Sandpoint for its 30th time with three nights of screenings on Friday, Jan. 17 and Saturday, …

Arts & Culture / Featured / Opinion / Sports and Outdoors

August 3, 2024

Voices in the Wilderness

By Marlin Thomas
Reader Contributor

A promising forecast had me excited about getting into the Cabinet Mountains, despite having just finished a trip there 10 days earlier. And so, I …

Community Happenings / Movie Reviews / panida theater / Sports and Outdoors

January 10, 2024

Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to the Panida

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to …

Conservation Corner / Living Life / Opinion / Pets & Animals / Sports and Outdoors

November 21, 2023

Voices in the Wilderness

By Deb Hunsicker
Reader Contributor

“There’s some kind of animal down there.” I shift my attention from the bag of trail mix I’m focused on and scan the area my …

Eats & Drinks / Living Life / Opinion / Sports and Outdoors

October 19, 2023

The traditions we keep

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Tradition is a curious concept. Do something once, it’s a lark. A few times, a habit. Often, perhaps you’re forming a custom. At some point, …

Emily Articulated / Emily Erickson / Living Life / Sports and Outdoors

October 11, 2023

Emily Articulated: Scotchmans flyover

By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist

I have always believed there is something magical on the knife’s edge between fear and fun, anxiety and elation. Moments spent suspended between the safety …