CdA Magazine Summer/Fall 2020

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Coeur d’Alene Magazine Celebrating North Idaho Lifestyles

SOARING OVER THE LAKE T H R E E E X C I T I N G W AY S T O F LY H I G H

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PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE This is my favorite time of year in North Idaho. I enjoy the longer days, vibrant green colors and excitement in the air as everyone gears up to enjoy everything the Coeur d’Alene area offers.

The only drawback to summer is the lack of time to get it all in! I’ve promised myself this year will be different. My 2020 summer experience “to-do” list is already several pages long. I invite you to join in on the discovery of North Idaho’s varied activities, food choices and adventures. I think you’ll agree our team has done an exceptional job compiling many of these warm weather wonders into this issue of CDA Magazine.

If you love tacos, check out the latest creative spins on this tasty favorite. Even writing about mahi-mahi tacos is making my mouth water in anticipation. If you love Lake Coeur d’Alene, you’ll enjoy hearing from people who grew up on its shores and reading some ideas about how to enjoy the lake.

For a change of perspective, see it all from above. Get your heart beating faster with zipline adventures, a seaplane experience or dangling your feet from high above the lake while gliding along in a parasail. If heights aren’t your thing, stay closer to the ground at our city skate park or join us for a full moon bike ride.

I hope you enjoy this issue of CdA Magazine as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together. Take the opportunity to truly experience North Idaho this summer. Our corner of the world is good for the soul.

Happy exploring!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BIRD’S-E YE DELIGHT Aerial perspectives on Lake Coeur d’Alene

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GORGEOUS GARDENS Coeur d’Alene’s backyards are full of joy and color

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SHRED CITY All ages can play in this superb skate park

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IN LOVE WITH THE LAKE Lifetime memories that run deep and wide

18 CREATIVE TACOS

88 INJURY RECOVERY

40 WORKER STATUES

96 CRUISING SEASONS

56 FULL MOON RIDE

102 TALENTED ARTISANS

62 CLIFF TOP CABIN

112 NIGHT UNDER THE STARS

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FOOD

“This dish is easy to prepare ahead of time and will wow your guests.

For added flavor, grill your fish or cook it in a cast iron skillet on a wood-fired barbecue.�

1 pound fresh mahi-mahi 1 cup avocado or olive oil 1/4 cup Spiceology chili-lime blend 1 bunch fresh cilantro, picked or chopped

1 sweet onion, small diced 1 avocado cut into wedges Tequila lime sauce 1 fresh lime cut into 8 wedges 8 white corn tortillas

Cut fresh mahi-mahi into 8 equal pieces that will fill the length of a tortilla (you can also use halibut or snapper).

Mix one cup of avocado or olive oil with 1/4 cup Spiceology chili-lime blend. Place fish and marinade in a Ziplock bag, refrigerate for 4-6 hours or overnight. Lightly salt fish and sear over medium-high heat to an internal temp o of 145 F. Heat tortillas on a hot, dry surface like a skillet or non-stick pan. Place the diced onion down the center of each tortilla and place fish on the onions. Top each piece of fish with a slice of fresh avocado and a zig-zag of sauce and garnish with fresh cilantro.

1 large can black beans 1 12-16 ounce bag frozen cut corn 1 roasted red bell pepper, small diced 1/4 cup fire-roasted red Hatch chilis or jalapeños 1/2 cup green Hatch chilis or Anaheims 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar 1/2 teaspoon cumin Salt and fresh black pepper to taste

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FOOD

“The taste is incredible, and the secret is brining the meat right. When you plate these tacos, look for contrast in color and texture like some bright red marinated onions on top.�

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Ancho chile powder Pickled onions Guacamole Cabbage slaw Tortillas

Score the fat side of the pork belly, making diagonal cuts.

Mix salt, sugar and chipotle powder together and rub the pork belly thoroughly. Place in the refrigerator overnight. Place o the pork belly fat side up in a 500 F oven for 1 hour. Turn down the oven to 275oF and cook for 1 1/2 hours longer. Let the pork belly fully cool and cut into 1/2 inch cubes. In a hot skillet or a flaming grill, char pineapple slices dusted with ancho chili powder. Cool pineapple and cut in cubes. Place pork belly cubes and pineapple into a hot skillet or plancha until hot and caramelized. Place into a hot tortilla with guacamole and cabbage slaw and top with pickled onions.

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1/2 teaspoon cumin 1/2 teaspoon pepper 2 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup shredded provolone 1 bunch cilantro Tortillas

On medium high heat, add butter, onions and chicken.

When the chicken is thoroughly cooked, incorporate garlic and seasonings until consistent, then set aside. To make cauliflower slaw, cut a head into bite-size pieces. Toss it in a bowl with 1 1/4 cup shredded red cabbage, 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper and 1 1/2 teaspoon turmeric. Refridgerate for at least 20 minutes before serving. For turmeric sour cream, take 1 1/2 cups sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt), 1/2 tablespoon turmeric and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Fill each taco with chicken, provolone, slaw, sour cream and cilantro.

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Gorgeous Gardens

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IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, COEUR D'ALENE'S BACKYARDS ARE FULL OF CREATIVITY AND COLOR.

LIGHT AND SHADOW PAUL WALKER meets me at his front door, and it’s a smashing first impression. The handsome nonagenarian has a twinkle in his eye and green shoes to match his jacket.

His gold-painted brick front wall dazzles.

“I’m just crazy for color,” he admits.

Around us, trees take on fantastical shapes from fairy tales. “It’s a cypress,” says the gardener. “You can train it to grow like that, little by little, with weights. Just keep trimming and bending, all season!”

We enter into the cool comfort of ferns, dwarf spruce and maple. As we walk the gravel pathways, I admire the dry-stack stonework and the artifacts jutting through the plants.

“All the rocks I collected and brought in from the North Fork,” Walker says. “That driftwood came from Lake Coeur d’Alene near Harrison. Over there is the anchor from a rowboat I used to own. I’ve got history all over.”

Twenty-five years ago, he bought this house, a run-down rambler with a tattered shag rug. The yard was piled with debris.

“This was all just a heap of junk back here,” he says. “The only thing growing in the weeds was an apple tree. I bonsaied it and that was our first plant.”

We pause under sequoia, redwood and tricolor beech, and he shows me where the deer make their beds in the cinnamon and boxwood ferns in winter. He points out his favorite seat in the garden. A dear friend, he says, sometimes stops by just to read a book here.

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Walker was a wedding photographer for nearly 60 years, and he brings an artist’s sensibility for light, shadow and composition. In one corner, he has crafted a heart shape out of English moss for his partner of 40 years, Richard Corsini. A retired flight attendant, Corsini is taking over some of the gardening these days.

“I’ve taught him everything I know and he still doesn’t know anything,” Walker laughs.

I observe his vintage hand tools, antique sprinklers and various sizes of iron weights

“Many times I have had the pleasure of being immersed in Paul’s artistry as we strolled through his garden. A visit to his ever-changing sanctuary includes many hidden alcoves of delight.”

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for training trees. Walker oversees his Zen paradise with a restless eye that is never quite satisfied.

The inspiration for this beauty came from desolation. He grew up in South Dakota during the Dust Bowl years. “There was not a bush growing, not a tree, not a blade of grass. My mother would take water from a hand pump well and keep a garden going.

And I said, someday I will have a garden that Mom would love.”

PAUL'S ADVICE “I never had a blueprint. If I saw something I liked, I'd buy it and find a place for it.”

“The deer will get in. Plant the things they don’t like to eat and let them help you prune.”

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along with miniature hostas and Virginia creepers. Clematis turns bright red in the fall.

WHIMSICAL PLEASURES THERE’S A SAYING that gardens grow to look like those who planted them, and in the case of Tina and Ed Hood, that is both true and complimentary.

This gregarious couple, married long enough they can finish each other’s sentences, offers a tour of their marvelously quirky backyard. Ed swings open the eight-foot-high deer fence and invites me in for a delightful romp through Idaho history.

“This was a horse pasture when we moved in 30 years ago,” Tina says. “Ed retired as a forester from the U.S. Forest Service, and I guess he needed a project.”

He’s been a busy man. While Tina works as a realtor, and deems herself the designated weeder, Ed’s garden has grown every year. Witness the koi pond, the arbors, the handmade creations and Idaho relics.

Here, you can still ring the old dinner bell salvaged from the lodge at Trail Creek

in the Panhandle National Forest. Or see the chains used in log drives across Lake Coeur d’Alene.

We stop to admire an unusual water feature. “This wood pipe was part of the water main for the City of Coeur d’Alene,” Ed says. “After some experimentation it made just the right fountain.”

But the real claim to fame is the dahlias. At peak season, there are a thousand dahlias here. Some are softball size, others big as plates. “The dahlias need to be dug up every year, divided, stored and replanted,” Tina says. It’s a labor of love, well rewarded.

On our way out of the garden, Tina plucks a leaf off a plant I don’t recognize. “Smell this,” she says, rubbing the leaves together under my nose. “What does it remind you of?” And there it is, the crowning touch of whimsy in this magical garden. “Cassia didmobotrya,” she says with a grin. “It smells like buttered popcorn, doesn’t it?”

For the Hoods and their guests, it’s yet another giggle-worthy garden surprise.

In Ed’s talented hands, a pile of old copper pipe became an amusing sculpture fountain he named “The Plumber’s Nightmare.”

There are joints (and intentional leaks) everywhere. Water pours through milk cans in a vintage German goat cart. Bikes rise from the ground through the branches of a flowering plum tree, his tribute to the movie E.T. Visitors admire the rustic pergola with bird feeders, birdhouses and hanging baskets overflowing with petunias and begonias.

Bright yellow helianthus is a crowd pleaser,

TINA AND ED'S ADVICE “We’re constantly looking at nurseries for something new and unique,” Tina says.

Ed spends hours deadheading, picking off old faded blossoms so new ones can take their place.

“Always pickin’,” he says.

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ANGELS AT PLAY A BRIGHT HUMMINGBIRD is hovering over the blossoms, a miniature angel in this tranquil backyard oasis.

“That’s monarda, or bee balm,” says Bonnie Warwick, smiling with pleasure.

“It’s a magnet for hummingbirds and big bumblebees. This is my happy place.”

There’s the soothing sound of a fountain, the soft sigh of twisted willow and white birch in the breeze and the cheerful nod of many blossoms. Fifteen years ago, this space was all boulders and three stubborn layers of weed shield.

“To this day I am still pulling it out,” she says. “It drives me nuts.”

In this garden, too, are a set of thank you plaques from the Coeur d’Alene Garden Club. Warwick chairs the annual garden tour, a popular summer attraction held the weekend after the 4th of July. All profits go to local charities.

“It’s been a real honor to be a part of this,” she says. “Gardens are my life.”

Her own private paradise has both annuals and perennials, since there are no wandering deer here in this Coeur d’Alene suburb. She also enjoys her weeping cedar, her fern grotto and the fuschia impatiens.

There are hostas alongside blooms of yellow iris and cobalt blue iris.

“I love the colors of Provence,” she says.

There’s a variation of colors and textures that make it interesting: a ground cover of sweet William, then creeping Jenny, then sweet Nancy and two colors of heuchera.

Peeking out from between the flowers are sculptures of turtles, quail, ducks, geese, crows, bunnies and her ever-present angel figurines. “I love some whimsy in the garden,” she says. “It just puts a smile on my face.”

She has planted a few naturalized herbs such as creeping thyme and oregano along with rhubarb.

“But I’m not a big veggie gardener,” Warwick says. “I prefer flowers because they feed my soul.”

BONNIE'S ADVICE “It’s nice when each part of the garden has its own personality, with different sun and shade levels.”

“To find plants deer don’t want to eat, look for fuzzy texture and distinct smell.”

“I like changing it up so I don’t get bored. A good garden is always in a state of flux.”

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THE ENGLISH GARDEN HE DREAMED of a romantic Old World garden, with wild blossoms everywhere and water trickling through hidden alcoves. And year by year, plant by plant, Vern Harvey built exactly that.

“My whole family have always been gardeners,” he says.

“Dad was superintendent of the Hayden Lake Country Club. I grew my first veggie garden with my grandma when I was age eight. They’ve gotten bigger and bigger since.”

Harvey, who is an elementary school teacher, moved here in 1996 with Dan Dolezal.

“We started small out here behind the house, and each year we did a little more,” Harvey says.

Today, their garden has a lovely stream with four ponds. It sits in dense forest, with no clear line between forest and garden. With different levels and seating areas, they have hosted epic garden parties here for up to 100 people.

“I’ve always enjoyed English messy gardens,” he says. “I love the fact that there are different rooms. When we have parties, people have their own space and everybody is happy.

“We have a huge variety of plants. People always ask what they are. I don’t know! If we like them, we plant them. If they don’t make it, they come out. I like different colors, shapes and textures and the massiveness of a few plants in between.”

Inside the deer-proof fence, draped with grapevines, are perennials, annuals, a veggie garden and apple trees. Bullfrogs call out from the duckweed. There is a secret garden gazebo with flowers and grapes including Sauvignon and black Spanish, from which they make their own wines.

There are zinnias from the school greenhouse at Hayden Meadows Elementary, a project Harvey founded years ago. There, his students tend a garden, learning science and math along the way.

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They grow flowers for Mother’s Day and for assisted living residents and food for the community.

In Harvey and Dolezal’s early 1970s home, a screened garden room looks out onto the lush backyard. In winter, this room becomes their greenhouse. “We bring the garden right on into the house,” Harvey says. “Dan likes to have a martini in one hand and water with the other.”

Their garden peaks in late summer, but well into fall it holds its disheveled beauty.

“I like to be out here because it makes me forget everything else,” Harvey says. “I can leave all the troubles of the world behind and just be here.”

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PROFILE

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y a d m r a It's a w summer, and in early t h e p a r k is k in e t ic .

“This park gives young people a place to be active, have a community and learn resilience and determination.”

Nathan “Ope” Baker grins like the 12-year-old he was when he discovered a skateboard, rode the streets of Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene, and met friends for life like Jay Olsen and Greg Holt. Today is another good day for them to meet up at the new Coeur d’Alene Skate Park. The buddies are now in their 40s with kids of their own, passing the sport onto the next generation.

James Brighter, Greg Holt and Nathan “Ope” Baker

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Skate Park Features: “It’s so great to see everyone pushing the limits safely, working together and supporting each other,” Baker exults.

This park, championed by Coeur d’Alene officials and local skate aficionados, was dedicated in the fall of 2018 and is today a successful scene for youth recreation, demos and skate clinics. It’s designed with an emphasis on flow and access for all users.

“The locals are proud of their park and visitors love it,” Baker says. “We can skate, bike or scoot there, push our skills, learn, sweat, burn off bad energy or just have fun. It’s a place where our tribe can meet, be active and lay any troubles down for a little while.”

Skating has been a huge part of Jay Olsen’s life. He’s been a sponsored skateboarder, team captain, skate contest organizer and judge, skate brand owner and president of the North Idaho Skate Park Association, the user group that worked with the city and Evergreen Skateparks to design and build the new facility.

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The first skate park was built in Florida in 1976, opening the door to a All Skaeboarding enthusits.

“This park is important for a lot of reasons,” he says. “It gives young people a place to be active, provides a sense of community and promotes resilience and determination, since skateboarding is hard and takes practice.”

The park hosts an annual summer contest called the Skate Park Classic, and the North Idaho Skate Park Association and the City of Coeur d'Alene Parks and Rec department hold regular Saturday morning youth clinics in skateboard techniques, safety and etiquette.

“I really enjoy seeing kids get into skateboarding and watching them not only progress at skating but become part of that micro community,” Olsen says. “There’s a real family kind of vibe and I think that’s pretty special.”

“The skate park is for everyone,” Baker adds. “From the shredders, the little kids and even us old guys, we all skate together.

Skating has given so much to all of us, and we are happy to be able to give back.”

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A R T S & C U LT U R E

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f you really want to know how Coeur d’Alene was built, take a walk through McEuen Park until you come eye-to-eye with the life-size laborers.

The Working Man cradles his hammer. The Idaho Farmer wields a scythe and the Idaho Lumberjack readies a crosscut saw. But real power lies in the hands of The Suffragist, holding her voting rights aloft and bravely gazing into the future.

Artist Terry Lee has poured his own sweat into making sure the installation is a proper tribute to North Idaho’s working men and women.

“I wanted to convey a history of Coeur d’Alene that people can touch, feel and contemplate,” he says. “It’s so important to remember what was here.”

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The Working Man came first, envisioned by Dean and Cindy Haagenson, owners of CNI, the general contractors for McEuen Park. Fittingly, the artist used a carpenter, Wayne Cardwell, as his model, wearing his hard hat, tool belt, drill and hammer. The Haagensons donated the piece to the City of Coeur d’Alene with this inscription: ”Dedicated to the Farmers, Loggers, Miners, Construction Workers, Factory Workers and all who build America, thank you. You have made our country great and prosperous.”

“After that statue was completed and installed, I thought we were done,” Lee says.

“But then I was contacted by Doyle Jacklin of Jacklin Seed Company, a family that had farmed much of the land on the prairie west of Coeur d’Alene. He wanted a statue of an old-time farmer cutting grass. This gave me the idea of a history walk funded by private contributions.”

The Jacklins donated this statue, “In recognition of the Idaho Farmers who produce seeds, food and fodder from the prairies, meadows and gentle slopes of North Idaho.”

Next came the Idaho Lumberjack, funded by Marc Brinkmeyer, owner of Idaho Forest Group, with this inscription: “In tribute to Idaho’s loggers, working to enhance the health of our forests and ensure the availability of our precious resource to sustain our rural economies for future generations.”

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The model for both the farmer and logger is Wes Baumann, a Mt. Hood ski patroller who works for the U.S. Forest Service clearing trails in the summer and uses a crosscut saw in that job.

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“The Logger is especially important to me,” says the artist, who was born and raised in Coeur d’Alene. “I remember the lumber mills as a boy, I loved the smell of the wood at Atlas Mill when the sprinklers came on.”

With all those hard-working men in the lineup, people started asking Lee when he was going to add a woman. A fine idea, he agreed, and contemplated a U.S. Navy nurse who would have been stationed at Farragut Naval Training Station during World War II.

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But as the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights in America approached, another figure appeared instead. To create The Suffragist, Lee hired model Julie Drake to dress in period costume, holding a “Votes for Women” sign. This statue is funded with a number of individual donations, through the efforts of the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters, as well as local luminaries Ruth Pratt, Mary Lou Reed, Mary Sanderson, Roberta Larsen, Sue Thilo, Teri Farr, Claudia Brennan and Nancy White.

Lee, who is also the sculptor behind the popular Mudgy & Millie statues around downtown Coeur d’Alene, uses an exacting process to do the job right. First, he makes a maquette, a small version of the statue, as a guideline. He photographs and measures the person who serves as his model. Then he glues foam board over a metal skeleton, carving the foam into the right shape. Next, he places clay over the foam and does his detail work. All this takes two or three months.

“Sometimes you love the work, and sometimes you hate it,” he says. “I may be exhausted some days, but as soon as I pick up the clay, all the energy and enjoyment comes flooding back.”

Then a mold maker arrives, cutting the painstakingly crafted sculpture into pieces and making 24 or so molds using silicone rubber and plaster. The old sculpture goes to the dustbin, and the molds go to a Portland, Oregon foundry for lost-wax casting.

In the future, the artist plans to craft a miner, and definitely wants to make that WWII nurse.

Like each of the rest of their McEuen Park companions, they, too, will experience the same artist’s angst, the late night sculpting, the moment of glorious completion, and then be hacked apart to share the fiery rebirth, first in wax, then in molten bronze and finally in the burned patina finish, built to last for millennia.

“It’s important to show our roots,” Lee says. “This is who we were, and who we are.

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Aerial perspectives on Lake Coeur d 'Alene I SPEND EVERY POSSIBLE MOMENT ON THE WATER, SAILING, PADDLING AND CRUISING. BUT ONE FINE WEEKEND LAST SUMMER, I WENT ALOFT INSTEAD, SOARING ABOVE OUR BEAUTIFUL LAKE BY ZIPLINE, SEAPLANE AND PARASAIL. TURNS OUT IT’S PRETTY GREAT UP THERE, TOO.

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter−silvered wings…” » John Gillespie Magee Jr.

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MY FIRST RIDE WAS WITH NEIL LUNT, OWNER OF BROOKS SEAPLANE SERVICE. I invited my dad, Jim, a private pilot who loves everything about airplanes.

We climbed into Lunt’s De Havilland Beaver, which Dad said is perhaps the best seaplane ever built, each of us with a headset and a window seat.

As the plane’s throaty Pratt and Whitney rotary engine pulled us into a clear blue Idaho morning, we gazed admiringly at all that lay below.

It was a thrill to finally be riding in one of these iconic planes I see taking off from the lake every day. Bill Brooks began flying here in 1946, catering to students using the G.I. Bill. His son Grant continued the scenic flight business, and Lunt and his wife, commercial airline pilots, bought the operation in 2018.

As the pilot banked his plane left, we were treated to views of The Coeur d’Alene Resort and Tubbs Hill. One by one, Lake Coeur d’Alene landmarks passed below, fascinating from this elevation. We saw rolling pine forests, curving shorelines and sundappled bays. Neil took us over Mica Bay, then Gozzer Ranch with its golf course and luxury homes.

In a couple more minutes we were over Beauty Bay. It’s amazing how an airplane shrinks the distances. The float houses of Beauty Bay were especially charming from this perspective. We flew over The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course and the Floating Green, craning our heads around and pointing out details.

All too soon, Lunt brought us in for a smooth landing and taxied expertly to the dock at Independence Point. But for a long while after, our heads were still in the clouds, remembering that fine morning when the astonishing beauty of Lake Coeur d’Alene was laid out in all its brilliance below our wings.

“We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.” » Cecil Day Lewis

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MY NEXT OUTING WAS THROUGH THE TREES OVERLOOKING LAKE COEUR D’ALENE WITH TIMBERLINE ADVENTURES. My wife, Rebecca, and I hopped aboard the ATV for a ride up the mountain and then let gravity and two wonderful guides, Macy and Mo, take us back down through the tree canopy.

Ziplining really does feel like flying. We stepped off that first platform and soared through a tunnel of green, with ponderosa pines, Douglas fir and tamarack whizzing past as if we were chasing stormtroopers through the forests of Endor.

“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." » Amelia Earhart

There is a rhythmic dance to ziplining that our group quickly found.

The unclipping, clipping, ready signal and pushing off into space.

The guides were charming, funny and kind to us rookies, whether we were crossing sky bridges, rappelling down or flying hundreds of feet through the sky.

In between, our group found its chemistry in treetop conversation on platforms built in burly pines. One duo was a son taking his mother on an adventure. Another couple had recently met and was on a road trip out West. Laughter increased as we warmed to the task and each other. Endorphins flowed.

By the time we stepped onto the last platform we felt like old hands, thanks to the expertly designed course and our talented guides.

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That last zipline, spanning well over a thousand feet across a canyon, is where I finally felt like I earned my wings. With the tips of pine trees far below my feet, and Lake Coeur d’Alene glittering off my outstretched arm, I just wanted to keep flying. As I watched Rebecca come in for a landing, her mile-wide grin said it all.

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AND THEN CAME PARASAILING, WHERE I WAS HAPPY TO BE JOINED IN THE TANDEM RIG BY A DELIGHTFUL EIGHT-YEAR-OLD NAMED ASPEN WHO CALLS ME POPPY. She had some jitters, and the crew did an awesome job of making her feel comfortable.

At the helm of the boat was Captain Jamin Rodriguez, whose family has owned the business long enough that he grew up with it.

“If you can sit, you can fly,” he told Aspen kindly. “We’ll only take you as high as you want.”

That did the trick, and soon we were watching the boat shrink as if by magic as we rose dramatically upward. Aspen let out a delighted shriek. The crew had fitted me with a selfie stick with a camera, and I held it out to record our flight.

The climb was so mellow and the ride so comfortable that Aspen and I felt quite at ease. We kicked our feet into thin air and laughed. We observed many things together; the colors of the lake from up here, the shape of the boat wakes and the flight of birds seen from above. It did my heart much good to see Aspen overcome her fears and blossom to the moment.

Tubbs Hill, which we have hiked together, looked particularly entrancing from up here, with the beaches, rocks, trails and trees all in diorama scale, tiny dogs and people playing on the beach.

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” » Leonardo Da Vinci

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“More than anything else, the sensation of flying is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost — if you can conceive of such a combination." » Wilbur Wright

As we soared past the towers of The Coeur d’Alene Resort, Aspen said, “Promise me we’re going to do this every summer.” We pinky promised.

There was a subtle shift, and we were descending, Captain Jamin expertly maneuvering so that Aspen and I just skimmed the lake, dipping our toes in the water. He hit the gas and we soared into the sky again.

My sidekick and I giggled conspiratorially. All the things our relentless brains try to solve on the ground had vanished into summer air. Up here, it was simple delight.

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COEUR D'ALENE'S FULL MOON BIKE RIDE IS AN EXUBERANT CELEBRATION OF SUMMER

Never been on a full moon bike ride, you say? Well, grab that old cruiser

and join the procession. Bikes and riders all decked out, peals of laughter and group camaraderie. Mountain bikes, e-bikes, tandems, electric one-wheels and even unicycles.

Neighbors, families, out-of-towners united in the spirit of riding just because.

“We were shocked when more than a hundred people turned out for the first ride in 2018,” founder Danica Gilbert says. “It was one of the most perfect evenings. The weather was great, people were decked out in glow sticks and streamers and we instantly knew we had something special.”

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Gilbert, then-owner of Slate Creek Brewing Co., teamed up with Justin Montgomery from TREK to plan future rides. Coffee Roboto, Local Real Estate, Radio Brewin and Five Pine Wealth Management also hopped aboard.

“The best word for it is magical,” Gilbert says. “During the ride we look like a pack of fireflies flickering and glowing as we go down the streets. You hear bells dinging and speakers pumping out all sorts of fun music while we cruise. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.”

Her favorite moment is just after the outing begins in midtown Coeur d’Alene.

Someone always looks back and says something like, “WOW, look at all the lights.” Later, people cheer from the sidewalks as riders go down Sherman Avenue, feeling like famous cyclists in a midnight parade.

“It’s fun, positive, spirited and respectful,” says Jim Ekins, a University of Idaho Extension educator focused on water quality. He can usually be found on a vintage Schwinn, and enjoys visiting with businesses and non-profits along the route.

“It’s a good way to get off the couch, out of a rut and meet fun, outdoorsy people.”

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The distance is between three and four miles on relatively flat terrain, with a gentle uphill returning from downtown.

All you need is an operable and safe bike, a bell or signaling device and legal front and rear lights. Ekins recommends a big, bright, flashing red LED taillight and a handlebar-mounted headlight.

Kids need bike helmets, and adults are encouraged, too.

It’s free and anyone is welcome to join.

You’ll make new friends, see a side of Coeur d’Alene you never knew existed and probably wind up in the obligatory group photo with a bunch of fun-loving lunatic night riders.

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If you need a bike, someone will loan you one. Lately, Gilbert’s been pedaling a clunky, noisy teal-colored cruiser of unknown heritage and ownership.

“Come ride,” she encourages. “Your first one won’t be your last.”

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FINER LIVING

Beautiful Bones How mining, logging and Japanese art inspired a timeless clifftop cabin

By David Kilmer

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There’s a remarkable point of land jutting out above Lake Pend Oreille. Sandpoint sailors know it well, since this is an important turning mark for sailboat races. Osprey and eagles are familiar with this place, and so are moose and elk.

When the owners first found this property, they didn’t want to leave. They set up a wall tent with many of the comforts of home including a real bed. They stayed in that tent as summer turned to fall and then winter. It was a profound experience.

“We loved the coziness and the closeness of nature in that tent,” the owner says. “We enjoyed it so much we asked our builder if it was possible to mimic that feeling.”

So Collin Beggs designed them a timber-framed cabin with an open living concept perched atop a barn garage. The feel of the place is incredible, with the warmth of handhewn wood playing against iron and rock, the asymmetries of trees shaped by humans, the mortise and tenon joints on display. It’s like living inside the bones of an animal, a ship of exploration or an encampment in the rugged West.

"In these natural materials we find a wonderful imperfection and asymmetry." - Collin Beggs

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“Homes today are much more than shelter. They are expressions of people’s inner world, their values and what they want to express to others,” Beggs says. “So a good home design comes from knowing the clients and what drives them. It also comes from the land and community. But everything is balanced by the craft. We have an obligation to uphold the craft and not let it be watered down.”

Beggs is a rare breed, a stubborn throwback to another era who does all the design, building and timber framing. He has studied the art of building with wood for the past 25 years in Japan, England and France, learning the centuries-old techniques. In a structure like this one, he brings those ancient traditions to life.

“With its cliffside location, the main inspiration here is the industries of the Northwest, the mining and logging camps and fire towers,” Beggs says. “Beyond that is the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. The closest word we have is rustic. But it’s really the idea of impermanence and imperfection that natural materials are endowed with.”

That concept is on full display here. The imperfections of the curved timbered stilts and rafters are absolutely lovely. Using yakisugi, the Japanese art of charring wood for preservation, Beggs and his team created black and grey patinas. The timbers, protected by those deliberate burn marks, are contrasted with hand-forged custom iron hardware from blacksmith Jake James, a work of art all its own. Dry stack rock around the perimeter of the foundations covers the concrete and anchors the home in the landscape.

“The finishing touch is these insanely beautiful carriage doors made by our craftsman Brandon Mimbs, contrasted by that iron work,” Beggs says.

The cabin’s sitting area is anchored by a wood-burning stove, with room for a table with four chairs that the owners can use as a dining table, to play cards, as a writing desk or to use when entertaining guests. They use the barn garage as a secondary space for gatherings, workouts or most recently as a gallery to showcase their son’s artwork on a studio tour.

"I want people to be transported, wondering, are we in an old building or a new one?"

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“Most of our guests have never seen a timber-framed home up close and personal,” the owner says. “They love that we created the one-room log cabin, but are impressed with the level of detail and workmanship which went way beyond anyone’s imagination.”

The simple kitchen has one modest appliance: a four-top stove with an oven. The owners chose not to have a dishwasher or microwave. And a normal-size refrigerator would have been unsightly and in the way. So they opted for two stacked refrigerator drawers covered by cabinet fronts, which ended up providing more counter space.

The gorgeous reclaimed Douglas fir cabinets came out of the historic Belwood Building in downtown Sandpoint where Pend Oreille Winery is now located.

Clever design made use of every available space in this small footprint. A custom closet was designed to slot into the unique slanted space hidden behind a barn door, and a washer and dryer fit perfectly behind another set of barn doors.

With these room-saving features, the owners could have a big bathroom and shower, where mason Leif Olson created the natural slate walls. It was an intense job. The mason sourced rock from a regional quarry, laid the pieces on the floor, and fit them together masterfully like a huge fine-art puzzle.

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Beggs upends normal construction methods by using minimally processed materials applied by the most skilled labor possible. He buys the low-grade woodlot cast-off, the crooked timbers, the stuff nobody wants. He sources wood from the property or from small scale loggers, mills and arborists. His crew uses medieval carpentry methods with a plumb bob or scribing technique. Watching them build is more like watching a potter, textile artist or furniture maker at work.

There’s an intentionality to this structure that whispers good tales. It’s reassuring to see the timbers that are holding up the place, and romantic to be surrounded by wood shaped by hand. Here, history and future meet in the beautiful now.

“We can’t get enough of this cabin,” the owner says. “We watch the sunrise, listen to the trains coming through, relax in a hammock or chop wood. In the summer, we see young osprey grow up and fly away. In winter, we watch moose, elk and deer walk the trails they have walked here forever. In the midst of it all, our home gives us solace and sustenance.”

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“You need patience, lots and lots of patience. You can’t be in a rush. You need an eye for detail.

Masonry is also incredibly hard on the body. Everything’s heavy. It’s all rocks and buckets of mud, and you’re in awkward positions trying to lift heavy objects, I spend far too much of my time living in other people’s bathrooms.”

What are the joys and challenges of working with rock?

How did you get into the trade? Any secrets to the job?

“Nature’s palette is pretty amazing. It took millions of years to form and each piece is incredibly unique. Moving around dinner table-sized pieces of slate and finding natural edges that blend together is no easy matter. Some days you can see the puzzle clearly, and other times I move a rock way too many times and I just can’t see it.”

“Wrong place at the wrong time.

When I worked in telcom, I met and apprenticed myself to a master mason. Now I’m looking all over for that young helper who wants to learn the trade, and I haven’t found them yet.

Maybe it’s just too hard. I listen to history podcasts while I work; it keeps the hands and the brain engaged at the same time.”

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AUTHOR · ENTREPRENEUR · TRIBAL ELDER I was born here on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation at my grandparents’ home in 1951. When I was a young boy, we had no electricity or running water. The shade at the lake was our AC, and every kid was in the water. Sometimes I'd catch fish, and they'd be cooked over the fire.

Amotken, the Creator, put our Coeur d'Alene Nation in these homelands. We gathered food from the land including fish, deer, elk and buffalo. At the center of this bountiful harvest was always the lake. When our people went to the lake they said, "We're going to nurse on the mother." They meant it with all their hearts and minds.

When I was a boy, the lake helped give my sister, Marge, her nickname. We saw her little inner tube floating empty, and my dad, a decorated WWII soldier, charged in to save her, military boots and all. She came up coughing water.

As he held her, and saw she was going to be okay, my father said, "Do you think you're a frog or something?"

Her name was Frog to him as long as he lived.

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My favorite places around the lake are David as a sacred to me so I keep 4th grader them secret. But at most every bay, every beach, every mouth of a river or creek, Coeur d'Alene Indian people have lived there, gathered, cooked, laughed, sang, danced and prayed.

At the top of granite cliffs are footprints worn deep into the granite, because for thousands of years, our people stood and knelt in these exact same spots.

I stand in these footprints when I go to the lake of my ancestors. I sing our ancient songs, blow my eagle bone whistle and find a deep and spiritual connection that blesses, strengthens and renews an ancient identity. I see the sun and moonlight flicker and dance upon the water to the beat of an ancient drum, and I hear the songs that have endured for thousands of generations.

� Murray Danzig

KOREAN WAR VET · SODA POP PROPRIETOR · YACHTSMAN I first saw Lake Coeur d’Alene in 1964. Someone told me I should go into the soft drink business, and the bottling plant I could afford was in Spokane. I fell in love with this friendly town right on the lake with very navigable waters. And I loved boats. I’d learned to water ski in Long Island Sound behind a 1950s Chris-Craft my friend bought brand new for five or six hundred dollars. I’d trained my three sons on El Toro sailing dinghies, restored a 17-footer, my first wood boat, and owned just about every kind of Boston Whaler ever made.

I used to sail Star boats in the Wednesday night race series on Lake Coeur d’Alene with my son, Steve. It was a beautiful thing to see all those sails. I bought a 60-foot houseboat, the Ho Hum, built right here on Lake Coeur d’Alene, and moored it at my place in Kidd Island Bay when the house was just an A-frame. My mother, God rest her soul, always insisted on sleeping on that boat because she loved the gentle rocking.

Right now I have six boats, all of them wood. The latest is Jefe, which I bought from offshore racing champion Jerry Gilbreath, who designed and built it at Coeur Custom Boats. I have Cotton Top, a little teak launch that my wife, Alice, insisted on. Let’s see, there’s Tutta Bella, a triple cockpit StanCraft runabout, the Alice Opal, a 1929 Chris-Craft, and also a 30-foot Hacker-Craft gentleman’s racer and a Chris-Craft Constellation. People have said I may have a problem. But wood boats are part of our heritage here. When you’re riding in a wood boat, it’s just a different feeling.

One bit of advice for wood boat owners… when you’re launching your boat, make sure the plug is in!

As I wake up in the morning, I look across the lake. At 88 years of age, I would say it’s Murray’s golden pond. I’ve lived here a long time, I know a lot of people and I’ve had very good experiences. I’ve never felt like a number here, I’ve felt like a person. And that’s the difference between big city life and living in Coeur d’Alene.

“The shade was our

AC, and every kid was in the water.”

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My best memories are staying at my grandparents' lake cabin near Hudson Point. We would spend the whole day swimming and laughing, then sleep out on the porch and wake up to the sun sparkling off the lake.

Granny called those sparkles her diamonds from God. Grandpa had built that cabin, and he’d spend hours on the porch just watching the lake.

My great-grandfather is John "Jack" Finney, who invented water skiing on Lake Coeur d’Alene. My dad was a natural-born water skier. He could take off from the dock with his jeans on, ski all over the lake, then be dropped off at the dock again and jump onto the dock without ever getting wet.

My great uncle, Captain John Finney, started the cruises on the lake, and my uncle, Captain Fred Finney, continued that tradition with building and running the boats for several years. I worked on the cruise boats while I was in high school and college, and that’s where I met my husband, Nat. Our daughter, Malina, is only in middle school, but I can see her working on the boats someday, too.

I go to the lake to relax and unwind. Whether you are on the shore listening to the waves or on a boat touring around, it’s all very calming. Because of Lake Coeur d’Alene, I had a happy childhood and I can always go back to that bliss when I return to my beloved lake.

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Jer___ and Tamara McGregor CO-OWNER/FOUNDER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INLANDER

My grandfather, Joe Peirone, bought our family lake cabin in the 1950s. I remember my grandma, Alice, literally would not let kids swim until one hour after eating, and I don’t think I ever saw Grandpa Joe wear shorts; he would just wear dress slacks everywhere. We had a gigantic inner tube from a tractor wheel, and we played on it for hours, bouncing each other into the water until only one kid was left, then climbing back on to do it all again.

The cabin came with at least 15 settings of Fiestaware plates and bowls. Years later, we learned that Fiestaware is highly collectible, but also that the orange and red plates are radioactive because uranium was used in the coloring process. We don’t use those plates anymore.

Every spring, my grandpa would arrange for someone to tow away logs and fix up the beach. When the barge and tugboat arrived, I remember thinking this guy seems tough as nails and didn’t seem to care at all that he was missing at least a couple fingers. He left an impression on me for sure. To this day, I’m proud that I got to meet Fred Murphy, a bonafide lake legend.

Around 1983 Lake Coeur d’Alene froze over. Because it was deemed safe, a whole big group of the family decided to walk across and go check out the lake cabin. Years later, Mom shared with me that she was pretty worried the whole walk across because the ice kept making creaking sounds, but there’s nothing you can do once you’re in the middle.

Our Casco Bay cabin faces north, so by noon our front steps are in the shade. Sitting there on a warm summer day, looking out at the city and Tubbs Hill, the boats and maybe an eagle or osprey is my favorite place to be.

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Must See on Lake Coeur d'Alene

Coeur d'Alene (see detail) Cougar Bay

Kidd Island Bay

Explore Heyburn State Park.

Hike Mineral Ridge Nature Trail.

Mica Bay

Fly through the trees on a zipline tour (see story page 52).

Echo Bay

Hike all the way around Tubbs Hill.

Walk the Boardwalk and watch the boats go by.

Rent a boat and spend a day on the lake.

Carlin Bay

Take a sunset cruise with Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises.

Dine on the waterfront.

Rent a sailboat at North Idaho College.

Rockford Bay

CDA River

Play the Floating Green golf course.

Walk or bike the Centennial Trail.

Windy Bay

Go for a seaplane ride (see story page 48).

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Soar above the lake by parasail (see story page 54).

Hike Cougar Bay Nature Preserve and look for osprey, otters and moose.

Fish for kokanee, Chinook, largemouth bass, cutthroat trout and pike.

Paddle a SUP or a kayak along the shore.

Find all five Mudgy the Moose statues downtown.

Watch the 4th of July fireworks show. (postponed until 2021)

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Mar_____lo Faulkner

3RD GENERATION LAKE COEUR D'ALENE RESIDENT WRITER · ARTS SUPPORTER

My first actual memory is of my dad, Captain John Finney, dropping me at the end of a dock at City Beach and telling me to meet him at the shore. I learned to swim that day.

All the kids in our Fort Grounds neighborhood took Red Cross swimming lessons at the beach which is now Independence Point. It was June and the water was still freezing cold. There was a big floating dock with a giant slide.

We could hardly wait to swim well enough to get out to that slide.

My dad and mom, Thelma Finney, ran cruise boats on the lake starting in 1934 with the 60-foot Seeweewana. In 1948, they added the Danceawana, an enclosed dance floor floating on Army surplus bridge pontoons and towed by the Seeweewana. It was later moved onto a steel float and rebuilt with its own engine, and is still running as the Coeur d’Alene on the lake today.

“I loved Sweyolakan and the camp experience,

especially the war canoes, camping out and learning the traditional songs.

Some of the girls I

met in those days are still friends.”

As a teen, I spent summers at Eddyville where my mom ran “Finney’s Lodge.” Swimming, waterskiing and sleeping outdoors took precedence over washing dishes and cleaning cabins. Pumping gas was a great excuse for a quick slalom ski ride. One day I wiped out and my ski’s metal rudder tore across my forehead and knocked me out. When I came to, all I saw was red. Having been reared in an Irish Catholic family, I knew I was in Hell.

Faulkner at age four on City Beach, the day she learned how to swim

Cut to the bone, bleeding profusely, I was mostly scared my mom would find out I had ditched the gas pump. The boat driver was more scared of my dad, and took me across the lake to the old Highway 10, now Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive, where I hitchhiked into the old hospital on Lakeside (now a parking lot next to the Innovation Den). Dr. Jane Gumprecht looked at my head and told me it was too late for stitches. She was a neighbor in the Fort Grounds and drove me home. Dad took me back to Eddyville by boat and I finished my time on the gas dock.

Today, I know the changing of the seasons by the sunlight on Lake Coeur d’Alene. I love the smell of fresh water, the feel of warm sand and the sound of waves as they round Tubbs Hill on golden afternoons. The lake is my home. It has made me who I am.

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My great-grandfather came to Coeur d’Alene in the late 1880s and ran a sawmill in the French Gulch area that supplied construction and mining operations. My grandfather, Oliver Delavan, worked on the steamboats as a young man. He and my grandmother, Edna, purchased a portion of the former Boy Scout camp in Walker’s Bay and built Delavan’s Marina there.

I worked at the marina as a kid, helping at the gas dock and teaching water skiing and seamanship. We witnessed the transition from mostly small outboard fishing boats to more play-oriented boats like Century, ChrisCraft and Tollycraft of the 1960s and ‘70s. I loved to be out on the lake helping people and I was always interested in operating the very nice boats others could afford to buy.

I left Coeur d’Alene to join the Navy, where I did well in Naval Hospital Corps School and qualified for pharmacy school at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. While I was stationed at Key West Naval Hospital, I met lovely Ellen lounging beside the pool at Southernmost Hotel. I fell in love while taking her sailing on my Hobie 16 and sharing Key West. Ellen and I were fortunate to buy Delavan’s Marina in 1993 from the family estate after the passing of my grandparents.

Young Jesse Delavan and his dad, Greg, renovating the family marina

“Some of my

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We raised our children, Jesse and Michaela, on the same property with their grandparents next door, just as I had grown up with Lake Coeur d’Alene in our front yard.

We love the clean water, fresh air and abundant wildlife here. Our favorite time of year is those beautiful fall days when the lake is tranquil, the mornings are crisp and the loons are calling. We enjoy sunsets, bonfires on the beach, walks along the shoreline and watching storms roll across the lake. My life is better because I was fortunate enough to grow up on Lake Coeur d’Alene. It has become part of my soul.

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RecoveRy P r o t o c o l How to stay in the game

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f you want to know how to bounce back from a hard day at work or play, just ask Craig Feistner. The MMA fighter from Coeur d’Alene has a punishing regime, training three or four times a day when preparing for a bout. The real secret to his success, however, is repairing the damage.

“Recovery is everything,” he says. “Recovery expedites growth.”

Yes, he hits the mitts, rolls on the mat, kicks bags and lifts iron.

But the real work happens in between. On any day, you’ll find Feistner recuperating with the latest science he can muster.

He pedals a bike while inhaling oxygen. He gets massage and chiropractic. And several times a week, he spends three minutes in a chamber cooled to minus 230 °F by liquid nitrogen.

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Feistner, 25, wrestled at North Idaho College, was a sportswear entrepreneur and lived with a shaman on sustainable land in Hawaii, sleeping in a hammock in the trees. Returning to Coeur d’Alene, he began training with Jiu-Jitsu Eddie Bravo

“The better you feel, the better you can perform and train rather than just battling body aches.”

- Craig Feistner

Invitational world champion Pablo Alfonso. Feistner went a remarkable 14-0 in Jiu-Jitsu and never lost as an amateur in the MMA, winning the title belt. He is undefeated as an MMA pro.

“The better you feel, the better you can perform and train and the more you can focus on technique rather than just battling body aches,” he says. “I know my recovery in training gives me an edge in the fight.”

His cryotherapy protocol is the latest alternative to the traditional ice bath. The cold impact on his skin triggers the body’s fight or flight mechanism, reducing inflammation, says Jon Longdin, his therapist at Cryo Recovery Zone.

Longdin has seen cryotherapy do amazing things. A Silver Valley miner fell at work and badly bruised all of his ribs on one side. Any movement caused intense pain. After six days of cryotherapy treatments, his bruising was gone and he had full range of motion, heading back to work a week after his accident. Longdin has cured himself of back trouble, once after shoveling snow, the other after moving appliances.

“The pain went away and didn’t come back,” he says. “It’s amazing how quickly it works.”

“The body reacts to protect vital organs, releasing cold shock proteins, rmb3 proteins and norepinephrine,” Longdin says.

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cross town, Lise Takashina practices Chinese medicine, using acupuncture, cupping, gua sha (scraping) and tuina (massage) to prevent injury and maintain athletic performance.

“The scientific explanation is that needling the acupuncture points stimulates the release of endorphins and other neurochemicals in the muscles, spinal cord and brain,” says Takashina, owner of Peony Acupuncture & Apothecary. “These chemicals either change the pain experience or trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones, influencing the body’s regulating system.”

Here in North Idaho, the pain that walks through her door comes in seasons: Neck, shoulder, low back and sciatic problems in the fall when temperature and humidity plummets, and sprains, strains and injuries in the spring when people become more active outdoors again.

Lise Takashina

Takashina sees cyclists for neck, shoulder, back, hip and knee pain from long-held postures and overuse of certain muscle groups. Runners tend to have more impact injuries in the lower back and limbs. Often, she says, their pain is significantly diminished after one or two treatments, especially in acute cases.

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cupping or shiatsu) to break up scar tissue, improve range of motion and improve strength in targeted areas. She also prescribes qigong exercises, yoga, and simple stretches for her patients to do at home.

“I encourage patients to build their team of health practitioners, each with a unique set of tools suited to help meet their health goals,” she says.

She recently treated a patient from out of town for acute anterior shoulder pain.

She located and released the muscles groups involved along his neck, rotator cuff, upper back and mid-back. Then she treated the isolated area of pain.

“Not only was the shoulder pain completely gone at the end of the treatment, he found great relief and lightness and a sense of well-being in his whole body,” she says. “Acupuncture addresses the whole system. He came out of treatment with an overall sense of calm and an effusive smile on his face.”

Chinese medicine has a fascinating concept known as yang sheng (translated as “nourishing life”), the cultivation of one’s being through deliberate day-today action.

“What you do today and every day will affect your physical and mental state a year, five or even ten years from now,” Takashina says. “It’s the simple everyday choices that plant the seeds for longevity and contentment.”

Ta k a s h i n a’ s A d v i c e “The best prevention for injury is making sure that there is balance to the whole.

If you are a runner or a cyclist, practice other forms of movement such as yoga and Pilates as a counterpoint, adding the yin of stretching and relaxing to the yang of vigorous motion.”

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ne of the newest recovery protocols for mind and body is float therapy.

“The first time I floated was the first time in my life my brain turned off. My internal monologue was silenced, which was a foreign concept to me,” says Jana Erny, owner of Release Float Spa. “As I integrated floating into my self-care practice, I noticed my resting heart rate on my Fitbit would decrease for three days post-float almost every time, because my cortisol levels were down.”

Also known as REST (Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy), it’s used by many top performing sports teams throughout the United States. Specific benefits for athletes are muscle recovery, reduced lactic acid levels, pain relief and lowered stress.

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“My daughter is a high-level soccer player,” Erny says. “During tournament weekends we schedule a time to float after the first two games, no matter which city we are in. This allows her muscles to recover rapidly and gives her fresh legs on the pitch. This practice also reduces the risk of injury by reducing inflammation and pulling the lactic acid out of her muscles.”

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A typical session at her spa involves stepping into a private float suite, where each float room is sound and light proof and filled with 10 inches of water and 1,200 pounds of pharmaceutical-grade epsom salt.

“Very quickly, it feels like you are laying on a memory foam mattress rather than floating in water,” Erny says. “Our standard session is 10 minutes of starlight and meditation music, followed by 45 minutes of darkness and silence, finishing with five minutes of starlight and music to end the session.”

“Many pregnant moms can hear their baby’s fetal heartbeat while floating, which creates a unique bonding experience.”

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Athletes use these meditation-like sessions for mental training and visualization.

“Because floating taps into the thetastate, that dreamlike condition right before you fall asleep, it’s common to exit a float session with answers to problems and innovative ideas,” Erny says. “Taking an hour to disconnect from the world allows the mind, body and soul complete rest.”

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PROFILE

A Cruise for Every Season LIFE IS GOOD ON THOSE GRAND BOATS OF LAKE COEUR D’ALENE

“I love lake life. The moment I step onto a boat, I can feel the stress disappear and I am completely in the moment; with my family, with my friends, listening to music, laughing.”

-Kelly VanDewerker

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Spring, summer, winter or fall, there’s one unforgettable perspective on Lake Coeur d’Alene that always satisfies.

That’s the ever-changing view from the deck of a Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises boat. Lake cruises are a longstanding tradition on this lovely lake, beginning with the wooden paddlewheelers, and today’s sparkling cruise boats make for a comfortable ride that’s in tune with nature’s beauty, her weather and rhythms.

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In summer, the boats pass elegant lakefront homes, fine yachts, secluded bays and the famous Floating Green at The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course. “I love to have a cocktail and completely relax in the sun,” says Kelly VanDewerker, sales director of Lake Coeur d’Alene Cruises. “All the madness back there on shore completely disappears.” There’s also Bands on Boats, where you can dance the night away to your favorite rock or country live performers.

During the Fourth of July, the cruise boats are a front-row seat to an all-American fireworks show over the lake. “The fireworks are incredible from the railing of the cruise boat,” VanDewerker says. “You feel like they’re going to touch you, you’re so close.” (Fireworks are postponed until 2021)

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In fall, there’s a cruise to the shadowy St. Joe River, where fall colors are on full display. The St. Joe also has osprey and eagles in abundance. The trip south really showcases a less-seen part of Lake Coeur d’Alene, and you can see the true extent of more than 100 miles of shoreline. The buffet dinner tastes especially good after all that exploration.

“Lake life is a magical experience, especially when you're out on the water. All four seasons here in Idaho are incredible when you see them from the deck of a boat.”

In November, the cruise boats transform into brightly lit holiday magic-making machines, when The Coeur d’Alene Resort Holiday Light Show brings hundreds of displays and a visit to Santa’s workshop at The North Pole. “It’s the most wonderful holiday encounter I’ve ever seen,” VanDewerker says. “As a parent, watching the excitement on your child’s face from the first step on the boat until the grand finale when Santa says their name is complete magic and awe. My kids squeal in delight as they eat cookies as big as their face, drink hot chocolate and meet the elves. It’s the perfect way to welcome the Christmas season.”

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In spring, the trees are bright green and there’s anticipation in the air.

Mother’s Day Brunch is a moving feast.

And the spring sunshine on the upper deck feels especially good after winter.

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A R T S & C U LT U R E

“It’s an incredible opportunity for small e-commerce businesses to pop-up for a day and meet our customers.”

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A Community of

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ART MEETS LIFE AT CDA MAKERS MARKET “We wanted to foster a new collective, where hundreds of people show up with amazing things to offer. What really fuels our passion is seeing these makers thrive and grow. It’s a real community feeling where artists encourage each other.”

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LOCAL, HANDMADE GOODS . A downtown market every season. Fresh faces doing exciting things. This is Coeur d'Alene Makers, where ideas are endless and creativity is contagious.

Here are three entrepreneurs whose work personifies the spirit of Maker’s Market, with events in downtown Coeur d’Alene in every season that are definitely worth checking out.

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Alyse Baughan,

Ardent Design

“The work provides a beautiful combination between the nostalgia I have for different areas and a nerdy opportunity to research some hidden gems. I also love the challenge of combining the characteristics of each geographical location into a printed visual medium, whether that’s a topographic map, color palette or something interesting from the history of a place.”

“I STARTED Notable Idaho as a creative exercise and it has turned into a sort of community project. I love hearing memories people have associated with different places.”

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point was a world of curiosity for me to explore. Going to Memorial Field made me feel like I stepped into one of the 1950s musicals I loved so much. I have a very specific memory of riding downtown in my friend’s convertible blasting Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA the summer before I graduated high school.”

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medium you use, being able to process anything, whether good or bad, through your art is so cathartic.”

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At the end of the day, it’s always a good feeling to be heading for home. Imagine if home was in North Idaho near one of the beautiful lakes we have come to love.

I was born and raised in Idaho and grew up thinking that all kids got to run in the forest and jump into mountain lakes as soon as the ice thawed. I was very surprised to find out how lucky I was to have that experience.

I celebrate every day with the fresh air, clean water, abundant wild-life and dramatic changes of seasons.

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“I used to appreciate the Makers Market as a welcome off-season compliment to our thriving Farmers Market. However, it has steadily flourished into its own niche. It's where I get to listen to the rustling of vendors, watch the bustling of locals, laugh when my loaded earring display finally topples over after numerous near-misses and sell my comfortable and cozy offerings to a plethora of people who, like me, love Coeur d'Alene.”

“THE THINGS I crochet are comfortable and cozy, like twirling together the DNA of a handmade hug. While I’m working, I enjoy old 19th century sermons from C.H. Spurgeon or inspiring and informative podcasts. I appreciate the productivity of learning while stitching and painting.”

“I BELIEVE Coeur d’Alene is one of the most beautiful destinations on the planet. I've been blessed with four thriving grown kids, and now have the joy of watching four (so far) grandbabies sprout and grow here.”

“CREATIVITY IS the gift of having difficulty pulling off ‘normalcy,’ then being afforded the grace to ride the wild weaving together of the imperfect human condition, with faith and hope for growth, while pulling off annoying ‘fuzzies’ when necessary.”

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We approach every project with the same quality and attention to detail.

“Design trends and shows have really fueled the interest in farmhouse/ primitive decor, with a recent shift to the sleek modern/boho style of 1970s mid-century modern furniture, brass and macrame. Items with a history are so much more interesting than something mass-produced at Hobby Lobby. I make signs out of old windows and hand-stamped jewelry out of vintage silverware, and I make a point to fill our shop with locally-made items as much as I possibly can.”

Megan Eatock, Midtown Home and Vintage Market

“I love vintage for its character.

It might have patina or the right amount of paint chippiness or just be old. A few years ago my husband and I started to make farmhouse tables, dressers, benches and beds with an old-school vintage vibe. I design for two major music festivals, Coachella and Stagecoach, with nearly all vintage items. The artists get a unique casual experience in the back of house to enjoy.”

Dixie DeRocher, Rebel Junk Markets and Shoppes

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COMMUNITY

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Night Under the Stars

his August evening at Elk Point Estates brings together hundreds of guests and dozens of volunteers to benefit the Inland Northwest SIDS Foundation, helping infants sleep safely.

INLAND NORTHWEST SIDS FOUNDATION NIGHT UNDER THE STARS August 19th, 2020 at Elk Point Estates nwsids.org

MICHELLE GONZALES, LINDA LEE HENDERSON AND DANIELLE PETERSON

AMY BONI AND DANI ZIBELL- WOLFE

“It was a lovely evening with a

spectacular view of our beautiful

lake. We enjoyed excellent food, music and the company of friends. We are

grateful to our community for keeping our babies safe.”

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It’s All Happening At The Inn No matter the reason for your stay, The Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene Inn is the area’s premier property. Centrally located in Coeur d’Alene, it’s ideal for vacations, meetings, special occasions and business travel. Plus, the affordable, award-winning accommodations simply can’t be beat.

Coeur d’Alene Inn 506 W. Appleway, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814 • 208-765-3200 • cdainn.com

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COMMUNITY

DALE & AMBER DOMINGUEZ AND MIRANDA & ADAM HOEFERT

KRISTEN STOBIE

“This event highlights our community’s big hearts and loving support. It makes us so proud to volunteer our time to such a worthy cause.

It really is a memorable and fun night.” ~ ADAM & MIRANDA HOEFERT NextGen Electric

HALEY & CHRISTIAN CUMINGS

“We grieve for a daughter taken way too soon, and this is a wonderful way to keep her memory alive. It lights up our world to know her legacy is helping others.”

LUKE YATES

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braD & Desiree Cleave Coeur d ’Alene Painting Group

CLARISSA MOON AND KERRY ROBERTS

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