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This updated edition of Hiking Olympic National Park features sixty-eight of the finest trails in and around the park plus additional trails throughout northwest Washington. These trails provide a full spectrum of recreation opportunities, from short strolls to strenuous backpacking trips that penetrate the heart of the mountains. Veteran trail guide and author Erik Molvar provides all the information you need to experience the glacier-clad spires...

""Fridays at ten of four is when we listen to our favorite person ever, Cliff Mass. If you don't know who Cliff Mass is, well, he's this thing me and Mom have, this awesome weather geek who loves weather so much you have no choice but to love him in return." - from Maria Semple's novel, Where'd You Go, Bernadette? This is a lavishly illustrated guide to making sense of the region's unique atmospheric and geographic forces. For the new edition of this...

On July 28, 1996, human bones washed up on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of an unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?

Combining the best aspects of hiking and wildflower viewing in one guide, Best Wildflower Hikes Western Washington takes serious or budding botanists to some of the best trails in the state to see the best blooms. It's all here in one guide: where and when to find peak wildflower displays and what to expect when you get there. In forty hikes through western Washington, explore wildflower habitats from the Puget Sound lowlands and estuaries to the...

Wenatchee, named after the native people who inhabited the valley in the eastern Cascades for centuries, is situated at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers in central Washington. The first European explorers came through Wenatchee in 1811. Settlement began in 1868 and increased with the coming of the Great Northern Railway Company in 1892. Its population grew rapidly as merits of the area's soil, climate, and water resources attracted...

The story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. Washington's first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians of the Puget Sound region to turn over their ancestral lands to the federal government. In return, they were to be consigned to reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or grazing--their traditional...

Generations of Seattleites have fond memories of restaurants, local television shows, stores, and other landmarks that evoke a less sophisticated, more informal city. This book explores Seattle at a time when timber and fish were more lucrative than airplanes and computers, when the city was a place of kitschy architecture and homespun humor and was full of boundless hope for a brighter future. These images hearken back to the marvels of the 1962...

Here are forty-three of the best hikes, nearly all of them within an hour's drive of Spokane, Washington. From the channeled scablands of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge to the subalpine summit of Mount Spokane, Best Hikes Near Spokane covers routes that will be of interest to any hike, or an overnighter, this guide offers plenty to choose from: Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Riverside State Park, Mount Spokane State Park, Tubbs Hill and English...