Coming home to the North Cascades
When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back. –Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
North Cascades
Tag: mountains
Washington state parks
Kitsap Memorial State Park – state parks quest #22
Having a rotten day? Try a heronry and a walk on the beach at Kitsap Memorial State Park.
Washington state parks
Squak Mountain State Park – state parks quest #16
Less than an hour from Seattle, Squak Mountain State Park is a classic example of close-to-home nature that state parks provide.
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Of mountains and mountaineers
Storied climber Fred Beckey died on October 30, felled by congestive heart failure at age 94 after a lifetime relentlessly dedicated to putting up routes on peaks around the world. Both Mr. Adventure and I have longstanding connections to Beckey, Mr. Adventure as a former climber and an admirer and me as an historian of the North Cascades. And last Friday, as we drove through unseasonably early snow over two mountain passes on our way…
American Southwest
Chasing goblins in the Jemez Mountains
A hike to a goblin colony deep in the Santa Fe National Forest gets our New Mexico trip off to a stellar start.