Schweitzer Mountain Resort

Schweitzer Mountain Resort Skiers now have an extra 1,200+ acres of tree skiing after crews thinned some of the trees located to the right of Ridge Run below the Basin Trail.

Another addition includes an installed zip line stretching over 700’ in length. The Resort hopes to have it running for both the winter and summer season.

Schweitzer pass holders hoping to travel north for a winter excursion can ski at Whitewater Ski Resort in Nelson, British Columbia thanks to a partnership.

Continued: Silver Mountain and Lookout Pass

Some recreation in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will now require new food storage requirements while in the region's back and front country.

Starting October 11th, forest visitors will need to store food items in a "bear resistant manner" and dispose of wildlife attracts in a proper manner. Forest officials say the new food storage requirement will reduce human and wildlife conflicts because of readily available food sources.

The requirement will be in effect from April 1st to December 1st on an annual basis.

Officials say the requirements depend on your recreation location.

In college, my roommate's mother was aghast that I and two of our other friends had never had huckleberries. She said "How could you girls not have had huckleberries?  You grew up at the foothills of the Cascades".

I love that quote. It's ten years later and I still remember it. We all grew up in Western Washington, which apparently meant to this Missouri mother that we should have all been raised on huckleberries.