SPOKANE RIVER FEST - ACTIVITIES
GROUP HEALTH CYCLING THE BRIDGES
CYCLE OVER ELEVEN BRIDGES!
9 AM (Register by 8:30)
10 MILE RIDE :
Join us on a family ride from High Bridge Park to Mission Park through Downtown's evolving parkland corridor. Celebrate the river in eleven river crossings that show the Spokane River going from glassy smooth to foaming white water. The ride route is primarily through Riverfront Park and on the current or future Centennial Trail. Two miles of the ride are on gravel road adjacent to the Centennial Trail extension, so the Ride is best enjoyed on a fat-tire bike. Ride starts at 9:00am. Register by 8:30 at High Bridge Park. To view the flyer with more infomation click here.
BIKE CORRAL
When: All day. Ride your bicycle to RiverFest and we will have a secrure bike corral sponsored by the Spokane Bicycle club and Cops. Park your bike and join in the festivities.
TANDEM BIKE RIDES
When: 10 am - 3 pm. Want to ride a tandem bike? Now's your chance, Spokane Parks and Recreation Department will be offering free rides.
BLESSING CEREMONY & INTERTRIBAL DRUMMING
Sponsored by the Spokane Tribe. From 10 am to 2 pm Blessing at 10 am by Pauline Flett.
Trail Maintenance.
When: 10:15 AM - 2 PM. The Fat Tire Trail Riders’ Club (FTTRC) will be doing trail maintenance work at RiverFest. Goals are to improve a steep corner on the west end of High Bridge Park near some of the disc/frisbee golf baskets and to improve drainage on several other sections of trail in the park. The FTTRC works with hand tools and a small crew of volunteers, and they use the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) standard for sustainable trail building.
Noxious Weed Service Project
When: 10:30 AM – 12 Noon. Where: Meet at the south end of the Sandifur Bridge, near People’s Park parking lot. Come and help remove two of the most common noxious weeds in High Bridge and People’s Park - knapweed and toad flax. Volunteers are encouraged to bring hoes or shovels and gloves.
Flyfishing 101
When: 10 AM - 3 PM. Learn the basic techniques of flyfishing with two of the area’s best, Stann Grader and Jeff Holmes. No equipment required.
Wild Walls Climbing Wall
When: 10 AM – 3 PM. Wild Walls Climbing Gym will have a 24 foot high climbing tower for people of all ages and abilities to climb. We provide the belayers and gear needed. There will be $5 and $10 coupons and specials for Wild Walls summer programs and memberships. The cost will be $3 per climb or $5 for two climbs. For information about Wild Walls check out www.wildwalls.com.
Native American Culture on the River
When: 11 AM – 2 PM. Sponsored by the MAC.
RIVERFEST CHILDREN’S EVENTS
Children’s Bicycle Clinic
Kids Bike Clinic One: Fun & Safety. When: 11 AM – 11:30 AM. Join Marla Emde for this clinic for aimed at younger children and their families.
Kids Bike Clinic Two: Fun & Responsibility. When: 11:30 AM – 12 Noon. Change a tire, lube your chain, share the road. Join Marla Emde for this clinic aimed at older kids and their familes.
Water Quality Testing 11 AM & 1 PM
Two 1 hour sessions Come get your hands wet in the Spokane River and learn about its future. Kids of all ages join in on testing the water in the river. Participants will assist in testing the temperature, oxygen, pH, and turbidity and learn why it matters. Connect with the waterway that many critters including us depend on. Sponsored by Washington State Department of Ecology.
Protecting Our Aquifer 10 AM – 2 PM
A dynamic model shows how the aquifer that provides Spokane with water functions. Activities help children learn how to avoid polluting the aquifer and wasting precious water. Sponsored by the Environmental Stewardship Team, Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane.
Amazeing Water 11 AM – 2 PM
Kids become one of the drops of water flowing down a maze of underground pipes that collect and transport surface water that has flowed down storm drains. Sponsored by the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center.
Enviroscape 11 AM –1 PM
(Four 30 minute sessions) Catch a glimpse of your watershed from a bird’s eye view and learn how water can become polluted when it travels over land, streets, yards and through storm drains and how your personal actions can affect the health of waterways where you live. Follow water all the way from your backyard, school ground, and local park to the river. Make the connection and learn how to keep our water clean with what you do in your own backyard. Sponsored by West Valley Outdoor Learning Center.
Benthic Bugs and Bioassessment 12 Noon – 2 PM
Come get your hands “wet” while practicing one of the ways scientists collect and monitor water quality data.
One important way to determine the status of water’s living systems is through biological surveys within a watershed. Aquatic macroinvertebrates (animals without backbones that live in water and are large enough to be seen with the naked eye) are commonly monitored to assess water quality. Children will investigate the relative quality of a stream by conducting a simulated bioassessment by sampling aquatic macroinvertebrates (represented by ordinary materials). Sponsored by West Valley Outdoor Learning Center.
The Great Missoula Flood 11 AM – 2 PM
The Great Missoula Flood event was a series of catastrophic floods that occurred more than 10,000 years ago. Experts believe that floods happened approximately every 55 years and could have occurred up to 30 times. The flood event shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest from western Montana to western Oregon.
The Purcell lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet stretched down into northern Idaho and western Montana and dammed up the Clark Fork River. Waters from the river and glacial melt filled the valleys of western Montana, forming the Great Missoula Lake. Eventually the ice dam broke causing the largest, most catastrophic flood in the earth’s history. Flood waters covered land from western Montana to western Oregon. Imagine if you were in the Spokane area the only 2 places safe from flood waters would be the tops of Mt. Spokane and Browne’s Mountain.
Children will interact with an on-site installation depicting the geography of the Missoula Floods, a series of catastrophic floods that shaped the Pacific NW over 10,000 years ago. Sponsored by Northwest Ecobuilding Guild, Architects Designers & Planners for Social Responsibility, Pacific Garden Design and Rennie Smith Tree Service.
Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers
When: 2PM. Come join in the fun with Seattle’s 5-piece country/honky tonk/rockabilly band.
Food Vendors
The Shop; MaryLou’s Milk Bottle; Azar’s & Taco Tumbres Taco Truck.
Booths
The Lands’ Council; Washington State Department of Ecology; Northwest Ecobuilding Guild; Unitarian Universalist Church, West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, Out There Monthly.
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