http://www.inlander.com/spokane/articles.sec-85-1-summer-adventure-2010.html Silence screaming into my ears, I have just one thought: I’m on Mars. But since Deep Creek Canyon near Nine Mile Falls is only, like, 20 minutes from downtown Spokane, I’m pretty confid]]> The world is a soft purple blur, as my Sector 9 longboard carries me farther and farther up Fish Lake Trail — a picturesque 10-mile path that begins off Sunset Highway and Government Way, just m]]> Just looking at it made me feel dirty. Our camping plans turned to panning plans days before when I learned that Idaho is the only place in the world (other than India) where you can dig up big fat st]]> Stumbling over loose rocks, I nearly pitched myself over the cliff’s edge. I was in search of a parallel coulee, just past the vertical rock wall that looms above the Lake Lenore Caves. Didn&]]> I’ll not be winning the hand of Maid Marian any time soon. Eschewing the technological advances and Blade Runner­-esque styling of the compound bow (which would probably get me burned at the sta]]> Most of my life has been consumed with avoiding situations where I’m hanging 30 feet in the air. Fingertips lodged in a thin crack of a granite cliff, feet scrambling for a foothold. Yet here]]> Mike LaScoula drank in the lovely evening hush on this willow-thick reach of river. The last rays of the setting sun igniting a golden gleam upon the placid waters when — WHAP! — a retort ]]> "Just do it." Yes, that’s a 20-year-old advertising slogan and practically a cultural joke now. But that tagline gets startlingly real as my bare toes clasp a gnarly rock ledge and I s]]> SPLASH DOWN This water park off the freeway in the Valley is like kid heaven, with a multi-colored spaghetti of s]]>