The walk:
Every walk should begin this way with a 35-minute boat ride across Puget Sound on a brilliant late-summer Saturday morning. Chalk it up to life in the Pacific Northwest and a visit to the farmers market in Winslow on Bainbridge Island.
The market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday, April through October, and besides giving islanders a chance to do a little shopping, the market provides mainlanders with the opportunity to experience a bit of the idyllic life on this big Puget Sound rock.
Here's what you do.
By Terry Tazioli | September 9, 2004
Hike of the Week
Fire lookouts are a favorite destination of many hikers, and the Granite Mountain lookout near Snoqualmie Pass is no exception. You'll have company, so be prepared to share the pleasure and the pain of one of the steepest trails in the Interstate 90 corridor.
By Karen Sykes | September 9, 2004
The walk:
This isn't the Eastside I grew up in, I thought, as I shuffled around downtown Kirkland, not far from where my mother raised a beef cow in the back yard in the early 1950s, or where I took my wife-to-be on a first date at the well-neoned (now long-gone) Flame steakhouse.
Somehow, in the meantime, it seems that Carmel has oozed up from California.
Posh boutiques, galleries and toney restaurants reflect in the gleaming doors of bumper-to-bumper Lexi the plural of Lexus on Lake Street, where every smiling jogger carries a Blackberry.
By Brian J. Cantwell | September 9, 2004
The walk:
Sample Czech pastries and Yakima peppers, watch a cooking demonstration, visit two museums and sip Taiwanese bubble tea during this 2.5-mile loop around Seattle's University District near the University of Washington campus.
Park the car or take the bus to Northeast 50th Street and University Way Northeast (the latter known as "the Ave"), and start at the University District Farmers Market, where more than 50 farmers, cheese makers, bakers and flower sellers set up from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. every Saturday through Nov. 20.
By Carol Pucci | September 9, 2004
Short Trips
HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- This town never shies away from its reputation as the adrenaline capital of the Pacific Northwest -- for good reason.
For instance, on Labor Day more than 550 brave souls splashed into the chilly waters of the Columbia River near the shore on the Washington side and swam the mile across the river to town -- just for the fun of it. The annual event was started in the 1940s by a Hood River Valley orchardist and his family to emphasize the importance of physical fitness.
By Jeff Larsen | September 9, 2004
