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.
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The real MVP of last night? The guy who scraped the mud off Will Klein’s cleats.
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The real MVP of last night? The guy who scraped the mud off Will Klein’s cleats.
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 “article.”
September 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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 “article.”
Riding a bike downhill through 15 miles of railroad history is a good time.
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.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Riding a bike downhill through 15 miles of railroad history is a good time.
Fishing in downtown Spokane?
Yep, it’s a thing.
Yep, it’s a thing.
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...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fishing in downtown Spokane?
Yep, it’s a thing.
Yep, it’s a thing.
On oil change intervals and all the stuff that happens in 5,000 miles.
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...
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July 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
On oil change intervals and all the stuff that happens in 5,000 miles.
This week in "my job is cool": I wrote about catching a big walleye in a lake north of Spokane.
Walleye run: Chasing Long Lake's toothy and tasty predators
Your first walleye shouldn’t be huge.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This week in "my job is cool": I wrote about catching a big walleye in a lake north of Spokane.
A story about maps, latitude and one large bull elk near the OR/WA state border.
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.
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April 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A story about maps, latitude and one large bull elk near the OR/WA state border.
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.
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.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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.
Stray thought from watching basketball for two days: are we sure that we need the word “physicality”?
March 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Stray thought from watching basketball for two days: are we sure that we need the word “physicality”?
Me and the dog had a good fall.
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 ...
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January 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Me and the dog had a good fall.
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Junior Bergen has 8 career punt return touchdowns
5 have come in the playoffs
5 have come in the playoffs
December 1, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Junior Bergen has 8 career punt return touchdowns
5 have come in the playoffs
5 have come in the playoffs
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.
December 1, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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.