Two Topics Today: Insight and New Stuff!

For starters, I must apologize readers for a lack of content lately. Attending school and working full time tends to tax the amount of free time one has to dedicate to extra curricular activities, regardless of how much they would rather be doing them. Secondly, my goal of one post per week has been an utter failure (obviously) and mostly because only a few people would like to know about my studies into business law and statistics. This lack of content and lack of motivation for that matter has brought an interesting topic to my mind; since I haven't really been traveling lately and thus have no destinations to write about I thought I would start documenting my daily activities and see if I could spice up my local life just a bit. This should be interesting, right? Prep yourself for some weird posts.  

Second topic, New stuff! Over the last few months I haven't really done much but at the end of January I did make the trip up to Sandpoint, Idaho for the viewing of the Banff film festival. If you have never been to one of these showings, I highly recommend going! Banff is a little town of 7,000 or so people in Alberta, Canada. They are surrounded by Mt. Cascade and Mt. Rundle in the Rockies and have a deep heritage of mountain activities such as the Lake Louise ski resort. Well every year they host a film and book festival based out of the Banff Centre, or the Banff school of fine arts. This festival then goes on a world tour where the films are played for people all over the world! In Sandpoint it is a three day event with films ranging from mountaineering to canoeing to cycling hosted at the historic Panida Theater. These films document the adventures and travels of famous athletes and their film crews and sometimes just random people who have a camera and a desire for worldly experience. The Banff world tour is definitely something every one should see at least once!

Sandpoint is another great little town. Close to the Canadian border and nestled between the foot of Schweitzer mountain resort and beautiful Lake Pend Oreille, it's a quaint little town with tons of activities to offer. I have recently been introduced to cross country skiing which is a great winter hobby that is a little more efficient than snow shoeing but still has the same "trekking" feel to it. Schweitzer has miles of beautiful cross country ski, snowshoe, and fat bike trails that can be accessed for $15 or so. It's a great way to enjoy the outdoors and get some exercise as well. My confidence with down hill skiing is basically nonexistent; I'd rather have my feet strapped together! But cross country skiing is a great introduction to having separated feet and a good way to build confidence on the snow. 

Beautiful views from Schweitzer's cross country trails!

Thanks for reading, I hope you are having a great day! Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

-Rhino