Vista House Beverage Service Hike to the summit of Mount Spokane and enjoy breathtaking, 360-degree views of the region as your reward, along with an ice beverage to cool you off after all that physical exertion on a hot day. For the first time ever, staff at Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park are offering a pop-up bar at the historic Vista House every Saturday afternoon in August. The rock-walled structure, listed on the Spokane and the National Register of Historic Places, was completed in 1933 and is accessible from summit trails and by car, but whichever transport mode you take, don’t forget your Discover Pass. During the event’s kickoff this weekend, featured brews are No-Li Brewhouse’s Threezy Does It, a low-calorie hazy IPA, and its Day Fade huckleberry lemonade seltzer (PSA: Huckleberries are ripe now all over the mountain, so bring your buckets!). Sixteen-ounce pours of either are $6, and other options include $6 microbrew cans, $5 canned domestics, plus wa
Here are the candidates for the
WaFd Bank Washington High School Athlete of the Week for April 12-18 as nominated by fans, readers and SBLive’s staff. Read through the nominees and cast your vote at the bottom of the page. Voting will conclude on Sunday at 11:59 p.m and the winner will be announced Monday. If you would like to make a nomination in a future week, please email regan@scorebooklive.com or tag us on Twitter or Instagram at @sblivewa.
THIS WEEK’S WAFD BANK PLAYER OF THE WEEK NOMINEES:
Jason Brown, O’Dea: Rushed for 247 yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries in a Metro League title win over Seattle Prep.
Players were selected based on 2019 spring high school performance, offseason observations and conversations with coaches:
PRESEASON ALL-STATE SOFTBALL TEAM
Catcher: Sydney Wells, Selah, sr.
Arm talent runs in the family – she is the daughter of ex-MLB pitcher Bob Wells. But this Fordham signee also hits moonshots and has speed.
Corner infielder: Alysia Fraly, Prairie, jr.
The last time anyone saw this all-4A GSHL third baseman, she was damaging concession stands with her long home runs as a ninth grader in 2019.
Corner infielder: Kaiea Higa, Tahoma, jr.
This third baseman is arguably the best slugger in the state, and committed to Oregon State where her mom (Michelle Trujillo-Higa) played.
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was in the Navy and we were on a destroyer, we were out at sea, so I was talking to these guys. This one guy I ll never forget his hometown: He was from Fitzgerald, Georgia. I gave them a ski lesson on the fantail of a destroyer, Gerry Fitz FitzGerald says, laughing while we sit drinking coffee one cold morning at Lookout Pass. He demonstrated the lesson: OK, hold your feet here. And now walk forward. OK. Keep your hands out here. It was hysterical, but they were into it. A longtime Spokane resident, Fitz has been coaching ski racing for over 50 years and during that time he s coached well over 500 kids. He s greatly respected and admired throughout the Pacific Northwest ski racing community.