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Mike Wright

@mikewright.bsky.social

Outdoors guy at the Spokesman-Review. Former Bozeman Daily Chronicle guy. Go Griz. My first license plate started with 2G. Subscribe to my email newsletter Field Notes at spokesman.com/newsletters/.

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My other pet peeve is that I’m having fun watching it.

06.09.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one cares about what I think about the show about a newspaper but I gotta get my biggest pet peeve out here: I’ve never heard anyone in a newsroom use the word β€œarticle.”

06.09.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Wright: Riding the (former) rails on the Route of the Hiawatha TAFT, Mont. – For most of the ride through the Taft Tunnel, there’s no light at the end.

Riding a bike downhill through 15 miles of railroad history is a good time.

04.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Central casting: Local guide takes people fishing in Spokane's Riverfront Park It was about 5:30 p.m. on a Friday in Riverfront Park. A food truck served diners on the orange bridge over the Spokane River. People cruised by on bikes and scooters. The cowboy boots and denim crowd...

Fishing in downtown Spokane?

Yep, it’s a thing.

16.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Wright: How long is 5,000 miles? When I was in high school, I changed my own oil. Five quarts of conventional 5W-30, every 3,000 miles. Knowing where the oil and air filter were on the Ford Ranger made me feel handy, and oil disposal...

On oil change intervals and all the stuff that happens in 5,000 miles.

31.07.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walleye run: Chasing Long Lake's toothy and tasty predators Your first walleye shouldn’t be huge.

This week in "my job is cool": I wrote about catching a big walleye in a lake north of Spokane.

23.06.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More than 30 arrested at immigration protest in Spokane sparked by arrest of 2 immigrants Immigration protests erupted in Spokane on Wednesday, sparking a massive police response and 30 arrests.
12.06.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Along the 46th parallel: How the Washington constitution swung a hunting case near the Washington-Oregon border Shawn Humphrey had always wanted to kill a big bull elk in the Wenaha unit in northeastern Oregon.

A story about maps, latitude and one large bull elk near the OR/WA state border.

13.04.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Season on the peaks: Spokane native climbs, paraglides through New Zealand 100 Peaks Challenge Until last month, only one climber had stood atop all 100 of the peaks on the list, and had done so across three decades.

Nathan Longhurst climbed and flew his way through 100 peaks in New Zealand in 103 days this winter. Then he talked to me about it.

30.03.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stray thought from watching basketball for two days: are we sure that we need the word β€œphysicality”?

22.03.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Wright: A bird dog's rookie season The final hunt of the season went about as well as most of the others. I followed the dog with optimism, punching through sagebrush and cattails and willows, thinking there would eventually be a bird ...

Me and the dog had a good fall.

26.01.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Wright: Bonefish, spoonbills and tuna-on-wheat in Mexico The first time Angel told me to cast it was off to my left, into a patch of bright blue water. It was the second day of 2025, and we were standing on the front of a panga in Ascension Bay, a pocket of...

Went fishing in Mexico, wrote about it.

www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

21.01.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Junior Bergen has 8 career punt return touchdowns

5 have come in the playoffs

01.12.2024 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What did I say

01.12.2024 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear, I am an extremely casual griz fan. But God it’s fun to watch Bergen.

01.12.2024 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels appropriate that my first non-reply post on this social network is to emphasize to the world that Junior Bergen is a great joy to watch.

01.12.2024 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or. Definitely or.

08.11.2024 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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