The Key to a 30K Trail Run By Kimberly Shepard Sometimes you don’t know how you feel about an experience until it’s over. Take a novel, for example: the beginning may have you rolling your eyes and questioning
Good at Everything Story and photos by Max Jenkins “They’re a fantastic dance team,” people kept saying. I wasn’t the jealous type, but it was hard not to be a little worried. This was in the 1950s at
Motocross As Character-Builder Story and photos by Bob Abrams During round one of the Owyhee Motorcycle Club (OMC) summer motocross series in Garden City last June, I was in the right place at the right time. I was
Challenged Athletes in the Wild By Lance Pounds Photos Courtesy of Challenged Athletes Idaho Foundation After I moved back to Idaho from Portland to start my own solo legal practice in 2018, I played tour guide for my
Lured Back by the Roar Story and Photos by Scott Kunau “You!” Ron “Mad Dog” Bolton barked at me during the Idaho Regatta’s Friday night test-and-tune in 1981. “Borrow that helmet and that racing life jacket, and come
Counter-Revolution in Valley County Story and Photos by Aaron Theisen A dirty secret about us outdoors writers, especially in the spread-out West, is we spend a lot of time staring out the window. I drive some twenty thousand
In the Albany Mountains Story and Photos by Alice Schenk On a bluebird day in mid-November 2018, we stepped from the pickup, donned our hiking boots, hats, and backpacks, adjusted our trekking poles, and headed down the road
A Soccer Fan Gets His Wish By Nathan Davis For millions of people, soccer isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life that sometimes can border on near-religious devotion. Throughout most of my life, I’ve loved soccer
Three Decades of Triathlons By Alice Schenk This would be my thirtieth Spudman, and as in all the others before it, I intended to bring home a trophy. If you finish in the top three in your division
The Saga of Dick Johnson, Senior Athlete Extraordinaire By Lawana Johnson Photos Courtesy of Dick and Lawana Johnson “Dad, we got this!” eighteen year-old Shelly Johnson urged. “Come on, Dad, let’s go!” Her forty-six-year-old father struggled to pull
