Reading the Washington Landscape

I had a venture into the Northwest Cascades that included a chance to check a couple of old quarries. The quarries were readily apparent in ...

Last week while on the Waterville Plateau in central Washington I observed a bit of a dust storm to the east in the early morning.     Blowi...

On Monday I headed to central Washington via the Highway 20 across the North Cascades over Rainy Pass and Washington Pass. A cold rain was f...

I have spent a fair bit of time on the high bluffs along the east side of Port Discovery. During some of those ventures a small boat has bee...

I roughed in the route of a 1824 Hudson Bay Company expedition from Fort George, the former Fort Astoria trading post, to what was later to ...

During a work venture in the San Juan Islands I got a nice look at the bedrock along the north shore of Crane Island. Crane is a rocky islan...

Malden Post Office before the fire NPR did a brief story on Malden, Washington and the lack of a National Major Disaster Declaration after t...