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Salmon’s 12 Hours of Disco endurance mountain bike race attracted some serious endurance athletes. Don’t get me wrong, these were extremely nice people, but then again when you routinely run the risk of having a heart attack of losing other bodily functions in front of a crowd, it sort of makes sense to be nice, […]
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Lost Riders Escape Disco Hill Unscathed

Thanks to all of you who encouraged the Lost Riders in their endurance mountain bike racing team debut. The race — 12 Hours of Disco — brought in dozens of riders from around the area, many of them more prepared than we were. When I say prepared, I mean physically prepared. We were by far […]
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Originally posted on Northlands Medical Clinic Team Blog:
Cypress Hill Climb- Report from newest  team member Kristina Bagma   How much pain can you handle?   That was the question I was asking myself on the morning of the Glotman Simpson Cypress Hill Climb.  It was actually the question I was asking myself all week.  “Was…

Police Blotter

From the May 10, 2012 Salmon Recorder Herald…. Woman reported a large unknown type of animal (dispatch thought it sounded lick (sp) a rock chuck) confronted her as she was attempting to enter her vehicle. Woman ran back to her house and the animal chased her and then ran under her house. She said the […]
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Bike Simulator

The thing that motivates the Lost Riders to train the most is the fear of needing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by our neighbors. Podunk is a small town so there’s a 97% chance the EMT would be someone we know or a cousin, and that’s just awkward. So when Her Royal Highness’ hockey career took the fam […]
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Pedal Driven

The training continues for the Lost Riders of Discovery Hill. There’s only 2 weeks before Salmon’s 12 Hours of Disco endurance mountain bike race so my team is hot on the training trail. This is not us: On Friday, 3 of the 4 of us even went to go see some mountain bike movies with […]
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50 Simple Things, or Maybe Just One

I traveled to Dillon, Montana, last week with the director of our local land trust. Podunk’s Green Queens had been invited to present a talk we called How Conservation Can Revitalize Rural Economies at the University of Montana Western. To go on a road trip this time of year, we’d give a talk at a […]
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Rising to the Disco Challenge

When my best friend suggested we enter a sanctioned mountain bike race, I was a tad on the reluctant side. There were a lot of flaws in her scheme starting with we are not mountain bike racers. The race — 12 Hours of Disco — indicated to me that we would have to ride our […]
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Police Blotter

From the April 19, 2012 Salmon Recorder Herald – Woman reported a large dark colored dog with a white face that was outside her fence causing her dogs to bark. – Woman said that she was following a large moving van all over the road and she thought it could be the wind but she […]
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Proposed Legislation

I appreciate the fact that credit card companies are now required to disclose the true measure of their lending practices on our bill each month. Thanks to consumer advocates, companies like CapitalOne now have to reveal to me that if I choose to pay only my minimum balance at their usury rate of 18% interest, […]
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