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.
Washington state parks
Tag: mountains
North Cascades
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…