Take a Walk
Location:
Everett.
Length:
About a half mile of trails, plus the beach.
Level of difficulty:
Level-to-moderately steep, dirt/gravel trails, flat boardwalks and beach.
By Cathy McDonald | March 24, 2005
Advice to all those who travel to North Bend to shop the factory outlet mall: Go a little bit farther.
Just down Bendigo Boulevard is the real North Bend, a slice of 1950s small-town America where for a few hours you can experience another era.
There's a main street where young males still cruise -- showing off shiny cars or trucks and revving their engines to show off their mufflers (or lack thereof). There's a "streamlined" '40s-era theater -- a building that will be familiar to those who remember Saturday afternoon matinees for a dime.
By Susan Phinney | March 24, 2005
VICTORIA, B.C. -- We glide past a great blue heron, which stands regally motionless on a tidal rock less than 10 feet away. A few moments later a harbor seal pops his head up and studies us with great, brown, limpid eyes. Meanwhile, cormorants call overheard as they struggle to take flight.
It's hard to believe we are just off downtown Victoria. But a few hundred yards from the city's Inner Harbour, the pleasures that come from a near-wilderness experience abound -- if you are in an ocean kayak.
By Anne Mullens | March 24, 2005
Hike of the Week
If you are looking for a conditioning hike with solitude and a surprise, consider the Deep Creek Trail east of Greenwater on state Route 410. The four-mile trail is ideal for a workout, with a 10 percent grade most of the way. Numerous switchbacks make the 3,000-foot climb easier on the knees.
By Karen Sykes | March 24, 2005
