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
Location: Seattle.
Length: About a quarter-mile of forest trails extends to a grassy knoll and meadow.
Level of difficulty: Level-to-moderate bark/dirt trails and grass.
By Cathy McDonald | April 21, 2005
Take a Walk
Location: South Seattle.
Length: Several miles of trails.
Level of difficulty: Flat to moderately sloping terrain. Level 2.4-mile, paved pedestrian road encircles the peninsula; upper pedestrian road and dirt/gravel trails lace the forested interior.
By Cathy McDonald | April 29, 2004
Take a Walk
Location: Belfair, Mason County.
Length: Four miles of accessible, crushed gravel and boardwalk trails.
Level of difficulty: Easy and level.
By Cathy McDonald | January 23, 2003
In the Pacific Northwest, water is like a prophet at home, taken for granted and not well understood. As of Oct. 6, with the opening of the Cedar River Watershed Education Center, you can learn all about the power and utility of water.
You may even come to revere it, as did Northwest tribes that once camped near where the center now stands, near North Bend about 30 miles east of Seattle in the Cascade foothills.
By Connie McDougall | September 27, 2001
