Cross-country skiing, hot spring soak in Idaho
BY: Associated Press ![]() POWELL, Idaho — After a day on cross-country skis in the Bitterroot Range along the Idaho-Montana border, the dinner of spaghetti with elk meat was just the thing. We had driven the 58 miles from Missoula, Mont., to northern Idaho’s Lochsa River corridor for a long weekend of Nordic skiing, the scenery a dazzling composite [...] |
Federal judge rules against plaintiffs in Snowbowl suit
BY: Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow snowmaking by using treated wastewater at a northern Arizona ski resort. The ruling dealt a blow to environmentalists in their latest effort to stop snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks — a fight that American Indian tribes lost [...] |






