Short Trips
After he and his wife, Jennifer, climbed out of their 19-foot boat following a day of fishing on Blue Lake in Central Washington, Kurt Middleton pointed toward his family's tent near the beach and admitted that tent camping with a 1-year-old and 4-year-old is trying.
But to Middleton, a paramedic from Wenatchee, the scenery, fishing and weather this time of year, plus a waterfront campsite at the Coulee Lodge Resort, made it all worth while -- as long as the wind didn't blow too hard.
By Jeff Larsen | May 26, 2005
Take a Walk
Location: Riverfront Park, Sedro-Woolley.
Length: About a mile of grassy lawns and riverbank trails. Access the riverbank trails at the western end of the park fence.
Level of difficulty: Level-to-gentle, dirt/sand trails and grass.
By Cathy McDonald | May 26, 2005
It's a warm, sunny day in late April, and Marblemount's Jeff Muse is telling me about the epiphany he had during his senior year at a small college in Indiana.
We're on the shores of Diablo Lake, that jade-colored mini-ocean at the foot of a forested hillside that rises to an icy-topped North Cascades peak over a mile high. From the Highway 20 overlook at Milepost 132, this place drops jaws by the dozens.
By Mike McQuaide | May 26, 2005
Unfamiliar light -- the early kind that comes with dawn -- rouses me from my tent. Usually I value sleeping in over just about everything else, but this morning I have a mission.
By Alison Peacock | May 26, 2005
Hike of the Week
May is the best time to hike the Red Hill Trail near Cashmere, on the dry side of the Cascades. By now the snow has receded, the snowmobilers are gone, flowers are blooming and the multiple-use trail gets a rest from motorized vehicles until mid-June, when the trail becomes busy with hikers, mountain bikers, equestrians and motorbikes.
By Karen Sykes | May 26, 2005
