West Coast Outdoor Weather- 10-1-2015
West Coast Outdoor Weather- 10-1-2015. The weekend will bring some showers early on Saturday for the Washington Cascades than a drying trend late on Saturday[Read More…]
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West Coast Outdoor Weather
This is our weekly Thursday seven day outlook for the North Cascades in Washington state. Each week we will pick a region in the Western[Read More…]
The Magic of the Enchantments: Not Created by Giants and Gnomes, Says Local Geologist
Much has been written about the wild and rugged wilderness area known as the Enchantments west of Leavenworth, but words have a hard time capturing[Read More…]
Coexisting with Wolves in Washington
After decades of monitoring depleted wolf populations in the United States, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called to remove the gray wolf, Canis lupus,[Read More…]
Salmon Encounters
Capturing images of wildlife is not as easy to predict. Bear, goats, deer and marmots are all doin’ their own thing. One never knows when you’ll cross paths, so I simply hope for a magical moment and that my camera will be ready!
Bull Moose on the Trail
Rather than scampering into the woods as moose typically do when we hike past, this bull moose looked at us, we looked at him and seeing that we weren’t a threat he continued on as if we weren’t even there.
Monitoring the Weather for Hikers
In 1857 Dutch professor Christopher Buys Ballot postulated that there was a relationship between wind direction and air pressure. Buys-Ballot’s law provides a rough approximation of the location and direction of the low pressure system as it tracks through a region.
Mount St Helens Anniversary
Exploring this new landscape is to gaze upon the literal birth of a forest. For those anxious to discover the new story of Mount Saint Helens, the trail network around the mountain is one of the best in the northwest. Trails to the north, such as the Boundary Trail, gaze head on into the crater of the still active mountain.
Everest Anniversary and Fights
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent of Mt Everest. It’s disheartening, to say the least, that on the anniversary that clouds of malcontent and fist fights (complete with rocks to the head?) would be the topic of conversation, rather than the celebration of a historical conquest.
The Perseid Meteor Shower 2013
There are a few times in one’s life when the planets align and something spectacular happens that you know you may never experience again. In our case, the brightest of the planets literally aligned across the midnight sky during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, and our little backpack quartet, my husband John and I and our friends Dick and Steve, found ourselves fortuitously under a clear sky next to Purple Lake in the central Sierra on that exact night.
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