Winter Sports
Grab your gun and skis
Biathlon combines cross-country skiing and shooting
Date: 03/03/2012 | Sports
All you need to stay fit is a little time
A regular half-hour is all you need to maintain proper weight, get your blood flowing and improve health, according to the Society for Vascular Surgery, which forwarded us a list of calories burned by various winter sports from Livestrong.com.
Date: 02/07/2012 | Life
Happy trails, thanks to volunteers
Kudos to the 2,600 Washington Trails Association volunteers who put in 100,000 hours to work on maintaining and improving 153 state trails in 2011.
Date: 01/21/2012 | Life
Mount Rainier National Park reopens to public Saturday
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington reopens to the public Saturday, and all services with the exception of snow play will be available this weekend.
Date: 01/06/2012 | Life
Cubicle dwellers discover benefits of wicking shirts
Doing battle with the winter elements? After all, going from the warm house out into the cold air to the hot office and then dashing back outside can be tough.Maybe you're one of the many adding a wicking shirt to your armor.
Date: 01/03/2012 | Life
How to layer clothes properly to stay warm and dry in winter
If you want to survive winter, mentally and physically, you can't stay inside all day, every day.You need to get out, move around and breathe fresh air.And you can't let wind, rain and snow deter you.You must dress the part. How?
Date: 01/01/2012 | Life
Go beyond the 10 essentials for safe winter hiking
The Mountaineers have long urged hikers and skiers to carry the
Date: 01/01/2012 | Life
The brandy cure and other hypothermia myths
For the first few decades of my life, I only saw pictures of St. Bernards with a little barrel hung around their necks.
Date: 12/31/2011 | Life
Trek Mission Ridge by snowshoe
Mission Ridge, near Wenatchee, is offering guided twilight snowshoe treks on Saturdays, beginning Dec. 31 and continuing through February.
Date: 12/24/2011 | Life
Amazing clip reshapes opinion about the Internet
I've had a love-hate relationship with the Internet from the beginning.
Date: 12/17/2011 | Life
How your family can discover the quiet joy of snowshoeing
My first experience with snowshoeing was on Mount Rainier. A ranger led a pack of mostly beginner snowshoers who, for the first 50 steps, might as well have been walking on tennis rackets.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Life
Learn how to play safely in the snow at rec classes
The Everett Parks and Recreation Department is offering snowshoeing instruction and introductory tours, as well as a cross-country skiing refresher course.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Life
It's a great time of year for birders in Snohomish County
Birding action has been hot and heavy up and down the coast this fall: snowy owls around Ocean Shores, Skagit Flats and Stanwood; black-bellied plovers, long-billed dowitchers and Bonaparte's gulls at Hayton Preserve and Fir Island; and Eurasian collared doves in Bow.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Life
Snow flies, and skiers, too
Stevens Pass opens early for the season (photo gallery)
Date: 11/22/2011 | Local News
Sample Olympics yourself: Whistler resort offers shot at near-Olympic glory
The legacy of the 2010 Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games lives on at Whistler.The British Columbia ski resort, annually praised by ski, snowboard, outdoors and travel magazines, always seems to be ahead of the pack in opportunities for snowriders.
Date: 10/29/2011 | Life
Without volunteers, no searches or rescues
Sheriff's Sgt. Danny Wikstrom can't say enough about Snohomish County's search-and-rescue volunteers."These folks love the outdoors, they love people and they want to serve," Wikstrom said. "They live and breathe their motto, 'So others may live.'"
Date: 07/24/2011 | Need to Know
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