Paddling the Skagit River
PADDLING THE SKAGIT Story by Sue Madsen From Marblemount to the delta, the Skagit River offers serenity and surprises. The Skagit River starts 23 miles north of the U.S. border in Manning Provincial...
View ArticleFishing Baker Lake
FISHING BAKER LAKE Story by Sue Madsen Photos by Mike Carey Improvements have turned this lake into a salmon fisher’s haven. Mist rises from the deep, green water, and there is a faint tang of wood...
View ArticleBowron Lakes
Bowron Lakes, by Jason Hummel. Places have their sounds. They travel with you wherever you go. When an owl hoots, memories of desert canyons above Death Valley are awakened...
View ArticlePaddling Chilliwack Lake
Paddling Chilliwack Lake, by Sue Madsen. October 2006 – raindrops dot the water’s still surface and small waves lap the rocky shoreline. We’re a silent group in the morning mist as we work...
View ArticleCar-free Ski to Sea with the Wetboyz
Story by Oliver Lazenby Photos by Steven Gadingan Monday, May 23, 2016 It’s 50 minutes into a planning meeting for car-free Ski to Sea and team Wetboyz of Aslan Brew have tie-dyed a bunch of uniforms,...
View ArticleClean, Drain, Dry: A Bellingham program tackles underwater invasives
Story and photos by Ben Whitney Not exactly the poster children for environmental crisis, zebra and quagga mussels and other invasive freshwater species have not been known to inspire the hoo-rah...
View ArticleNew access for the Nooksack?
By Wendy McDermott American Rivers director for Rivers of Puget Sound and Columbia Basin The Nooksack River is one of the only rivers in Washington that offers year-round whitewater boating. The...
View ArticleSki to Sea competitors can now race multiple legs
A change to the historic race allows competitors to race in three legs. Teams can have between three and eight members. By Oliver Lazenby What’s the hardest segment in the seven-leg Ski to Sea race?...
View ArticleNorth Cascades National Park paddling guide
By Maya Hunger North Cascades National Park has everything an adventurer could dream of in the Pacific Northwest – remote wilderness full of old-growth trees, massive glaciers with electric-blue ice...
View ArticleNewsroom, Spring 2020
World paddling film festival The Paddling Film Festival World Tour is coming to Bellingham for the second year in a row, bringing about 25 films to Bellingham Technical College on April 3. Doors open...
View ArticlePaddling the San Juans
By Eric Lucas At first glance the eagle nearby looks like it is perched on the water. It’s an illusion, of course – eagles don’t perch on the sea any more than I do – but it’s an engaging one. The...
View ArticleTime on the Columbia
River floating from Hanford Reach By Eric Lucas Hanford Reach is a place of wonder. Such as, I wonder why bank swallows never make their nests in cliffs? And vice-versa? Floating the last open stretch...
View ArticleSki to Sea celebrates 50 years
The 7-leg relay race hopes to have all 50 states represented By Ian Haupt Ski to Sea will celebrate its 50th birthday this year on Memorial Day weekend. While the first official race was put on in...
View ArticlePark questing: A Q&A with Matt Treat
By Ian Haupt Matt Treat is halfway to his goal of visiting every U.S. national park. During the pandemic, Treat said — like most people — he started thinking about places to visit that were lightly...
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