Sandpoint, ID

I have always wanted to try snowshoeing and this year was going to be the year that I tried it. I started shopping around for a set of shoes and remembered my dad had an extra pair. I suggested to him to let me have the extra pair and I could try them out. He agreed and brought me the snowshoes. I thought it would be a good idea, since I was new to the sport, to try them out somewhere easy before I started trekking off on some long adventure

Every Sunday,minus a few holidays, Schweitzer Mountain Resort offers an AWESOME deal called “Sunday Solutions”. The solution is $20 half day lift tickets. My friends and I were ready to go skiing and take advantage of the Sunday Solution. We planned earlier in the week to go hoping for good weather as rain had been plaguing [...]

I read my horoscope for the day and it said “do not let fear get in the way of trying new things today”. Ironically the day I read this was the day my boyfriend had asked me to go snowmobiling with him and his family.

“Here We Go Bulldogs, Here We Go”, is a familiar chant you will hear around Memorial Field any given Friday night during highschool football season. It was Friday night and homecoming so my friends and I headed down to the field to catch the game.

After strapping on our hiking shoes and filling up our water backpack, we headed south out of Sandpoint about 8 miles to Dufort Road. We turned right (west) onto Dufort and went about 2 miles to the entrance of the park on the left (the route there was well marked with appropriate signage). We paid our $4.00 entrance fee and headed on in to the day-use area. The sparkling water and soft sands of the lake tempted us – oh, if only it were a slight bit hotter! – but we stayed focused on the task at hand. Heading to the west side of the day-use area we found the trailhead for what is actually three trails. We opted to hike Trapper’s Trail, a trail that follows the lakeshore closely, with a small diversion down Cocolalla Creek.

Beauty abounds in Sandpoint as I think we are all aware of; but during the summer months often times we focus in on what we feel embodies that beauty: the lake. Pend Oreille Lake offers many refreshing activities when the mercury is rising outside. From boating and all the activities that inherently brings, to just [...]

It has been said that nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer. Nowhere could this have been more evident than at Sandpoint’s 14th annual Long Bridge Swim. If not for the many people who organized, oversaw, directed and managed this event (right down to the homeowner who provided the starting line), we swimmers would have never made it into the chilly waters of Lake Pend Oreille.

Camping in North Idaho is such a perfectly easy thing no matter where you are, it seems like you are minutes away from great camping. We decided to get out of town and we quickly landed on Priest Lake. Less than 50 miles from Sandpoint this seemed like the perfect place for a weekend getaway.

If you can race it, I will watch it. Needless to say when I was traveling to Spokane on a Saturday as we passed through Oldtown and Newport I looked down the Pend Oreille river and saw mini hydroplanes, I was beside myself. I knew they had a yearly hydroplane race and I had been to it when I was younger but as an adult I never remembered to look up the date

got up early on a Saturday morning and met my dad for a hike up to Caribou Lake. My dad had been there once before and this would be my first visit. When I got into my dad’s truck he informed me that he had forgotten the guide book and we would have to rely on his memory on how to get there. Fortunately his memory is better than mine, since you can often find me asking him “have I been there before”?, and the majority of the time I have been to where I am asking, but have forgotten