Convergence Zone
On Jan. 5, the downtown location of the Seattle Art Museum will close its doors.
By Geoff Carter | December 29, 2005
Everything baby — but diapers and formula — can be purchased at this one-stop shop, but the emphasis is on furniture that grows as the child does.
By Heather Larson | December 29, 2005
Fashion-conscious teens and young adults with upscale tastes and bargain-basement budgets would do well to put Plato’s Closet on their regular shopping agenda, not only for the store’s trendy bargains, but also as a source of cash.
By Heather Larson | December 29, 2005
Before you make any assumptions about cold and ice, about white-out storms and shivering sleepless nights, remember this key point about snow camping: no mosquitoes.
For those of us who attract them like happy hour beckons drunks, this alone is incentive enough to camp in the dead of winter. But the truth is that snow camping can be immense fun and in some ways even better than its more popular summer sibling.
By Phuong Cat Le | December 29, 2005
Hike of the Week
Many hikers have a favorite haunt or two they revisit frequently. I never tire of the Robe Canyon Trail near Granite Falls, part of the 1,000-acre Robe Canyon Historic Park. Though close to civilization, the trail packs a visual punch -- no one has been able to subdue Robe Canyon, certainly not the railroad engineers who dreamed up this phantasmagoric route for the abandoned Everett and Monte Cristo Railroad.
By Karen Sykes | December 29, 2005
Short Trips
All that Fort Clatsop Park ranger Sean Johnson could do was point at a large white tarp propped up in the woods with poles and tell visitors, "Yep, that's where Fort Clatsop used to be." The tarp covered the ground where only a few charred pieces of the historic fort replica remained after it burned to the ground Oct. 3.
By Jeff Larsen | December 29, 2005
