Take a Walk
Location: Everett.
Length: About a quarter-mile of trails.
Level of difficulty: Flat to moderate dirt/bark trails (slightly muddy after rains).
By Cathy McDonald | May 31, 2001
Step One: Teach your child to read ... a map.
This is a good time of year to introduce kids to the magic of map reading. A good way to start is to introduce them to the basics on familiar terrain; show them on a street map where they live and where the corner store is. Show them how to align or orient the map so north on the map actually points north, and explain the map is basically what they would see if they were over the house in a hot-air balloon.
By Rick Hood | May 31, 2001
Turning trailers and busting lungs. We found both this week in the Big Gore-Tex Outdoors Mailbag, which has now been declared open for potential resource excavation by the Bush administration.
Fine with us, as long as no drilling is conducted while caribou - or any hooved mammals, for that matter - are mating near our desk.
From the top:
By Ron C. Judd | May 31, 2001
Step One: Teach your child to read ... a map
This is a good time of year to introduce kids to the magic of map reading. A good way to start is to introduce them to the basics on familiar terrain; show them on a street map where they live and where the corner store is. Show them how to align or orient the map so north on the map actually points north, and explain the map is basically what they would see if they were over the house in a hot-air balloon.
By Rick Hood | May 31, 2001
VICTORIA, B. C. - It began, as most gardens do, as a love story. But the story of Victoria's Abkhazi Gardens is more than a love affair between gardener and the land. It's a story of an exiled Russian prince, the Englishwoman he loved and how they poured their hearts into an acre of rocky hillside, determined to leave a legacy of beauty.
Today, their garden is one of many on Canada's Vancouver Island, where there are more gardeners per capita than any place in that nation and gardening is both passion and art.
By Nancy Bartley | May 31, 2001
GIG HARBOR, Pierce County - Locals in this cozy waterfront town love to crow about their scenery, and they have plenty to cluck about.
By Ray Rivera | May 31, 2001
TOPPENISH, Yakima County - This Yakima Valley community is known best for the galaxy of outdoor murals that decorates its downtown buildings - a display that will grow with Saturday's annual Mural-in-a-Day event.
Witnessing that artistic production might be reason enough to visit, but there's another unusual attraction tucked among those buildings: the American Hop Museum, celebrating hops - the flower that adds flavor and foam to beer.
By Stanton H. Patty | May 31, 2001
