SKIING -- All that new terrain on White Pass’ Paradise Basin expansion apparently is not enough for some ski area guests. In the first 10 days Paradise Basin was been open this season, 14 people got lost outside the boundary, according to the Yakima Herald.…
WINTER SPORTS -- Be careful out there. Avalanche conditions for the entire Idaho Panhandle National Forest Advisory Area are rated as moderate on all aspects greater than 30 degrees above 5,000 feet, Forest Service experts reported today. Natural avalanches are unlikely, human triggered avalanches are…
WATCHABLE WILDLIFE -- The 2011 Othello Sandhill Crane Festival has been canceled. Organizers told The Columbia Basin Herald there weren't enough volunteers for the event, which usually has been held in March for the past 13 years. The festival celebrated the arrival of the migrating…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
