DARRINGTON "If a man speaks in the forest where no woman can hear," the T-shirt lettering wanted to know, "is he still wrong?"
In this case, the answer (most likely yes) is a lot less pertinent than the place in which the question is unabashedly asked: Namely, the Sauk River Tradin' Post in downtown Darrington, an old-school kind of Northwest town where "politically correct" means spelling the name of your congressman right on a complaint letter.
By Ron C. Judd | June 27, 2002
Eventually, preferably before Labor Day, much of last winter's dense snowpack will melt out and, at long last, vacate the region's high-country trails.
You, faced with what will likely be the shortest high-elevation hiking season since 1999 (the summer that followed record and near-record snow accumulations at Mount Baker and Mount Rainier), are going to be on the prowl for good hikes.
So where will you go?
By Terry Wood | June 27, 2002
Bellevue Botanical Garden celebrates its 10th anniversary at a garden party with plant raffles, historical displays and plenty of advice for home gardeners from 1-4 p.m. this Saturday. The 36 acres of display gardens, woodlands, meadows and wetlands, now a Bellevue park, were logged 100 years ago, then home to a 1920s log cabin and family farm, and later a 1950s-era home and atrium garden that was donated to the city of Bellevue in 1984.
By Madeline McKenzie | June 27, 2002
When I plan a trip to the Olympic National Park, I always seem to focus on the Sol Duc River Valley and Hurricane Ridge. It's a huge national park that spans a mountain range and covers more ocean coastline than any other national park in the lower 48 states. Nevertheless, I can't help myself. There's just something special about those two locations.
By Jeff Larsen | June 27, 2002
