TRAIL NAME Saddle MountainDIFFICULTY ModerateDISTANCE 3 miles round trip
This hike on Saddle Mountain, the prominent and iconic Wenatchee Foothills peak that looms above Wenatchee, is short, steep, and—thanks to scented sage—a tad sweet....
Whenever we play in the mountains, we owe a debt to Jim and Lou Whittaker. The Seattle twins conquered Mount Rainier and REI, and made mountaineering the Northwest’s signature sport.
Whether you look for the wildflowers on paved trails, climb to the peak, or view from afar, Mount Rainier looms as our most iconic natural landmark.
BearSight a black bear—no grizzlies—in the Mazama Ridge area east of Paradise in late summer; train binoculars to the open meadows.
Harlequin DucksThey’re not as populous as the camp robber jays that frequent the picnic areas, but these...
Red foxes were once a prized sighting at Mount Rainier. I’d been going to the mountain for nearly a quarter century before I saw one. But this year I’ve seen three foxes in three trips. That’s not good luck. That’s a problem.
Over the past few...
AshfordThe town is little more than a loose string of rental cabins, mountaineering shops, and restaurants, but it’s home base for much of the park’s outdoor activity.
Westside RoadAnother washout closed the route in the late 1980s, making...
Under a Roof
National Park InnOpen year-round and snow free before almost anything else in the park, Longmire serves as a kind of home base for Mount Rainier operations. Most of the 25 hotel rooms are small and have shared bathrooms, but...
Mount Rainier is 100 square miles of active volcano. Armed with just a rock hammer and a handheld magnifying glass, geologist Tom Sisson set about reading its rocks like tea leaves. After a dozen years, off and on, of scouring the peak, Sisson...
How Pros Photograph the Mountain
TRAILS EVERYONE LOVES
Burroughs Mountain Above the trees and in the tundra, these ridges resemble a moonscape. Besides the First, Second, and Third Burroughs mountains, hikers can sometimes see avalanches on Rainier’s flanks. The catcalls...
More than half of the climbers who try to summit Mount Rainier don’t make it. And as a guide on the state’s tallest mountain, I feel them fail.
As I trudge slowly up the mountain in the predawn hours, the rope tied around my waist and tethered...
In the bump-on-the-road town of Ashford, which starts just outside of the Park’s southwest gate, there aren’t a lot of things: No McDonald’s. No stoplights. Definitely no fine dining. But there is a Nepali restaurant serving the specialties of...
To bring healthy food to underserved neighborhoods, the founders of Stockbox Grocers think small.
After a decade of disappointment, could there be new life for the space elevator?
SEATTLE PARKING INFRACTION
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Citation Date: 08/16/2012
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City of Seattle Parking Infraction
The Municipal Court of Seattle
P.O. Box C-34109, Seattle WA 98124
(206) 684-6600
VIOLATIONS
$4 Hourly parking meter...
Milton, Washington, 28 miles south of Seattle, repealed its bicycle helmet law in June. Portland never had a bike helmet law to begin with. Same with Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome.
Seattle, though: Helmet City. It’s been illegal to bike here...
“Forty years ago, if we were sitting in this room, a few of you would be smoking cigarettes. And there’d probably be an ashtray in front of me. And if you turned to the person next to you and said, “Could you stop doing that?” ...The person...
Former gang member Mark Rivers turns lives around.
He’s defended the Northwest’s most reviled killers and gained the cursed admiration of Ted Bundy
and the begrudging respect of prosecutors. So what’s John Henry Browne doing for his next act?
Turn on your TV.
The vaunted cocktail haunt that shuttered in December 2010 makes its long-awaited return in a new space at Seventh and Olive.
A well-crafted remodel of a West Seattle cottage adds just the right amount of room.
All these years I’ve been an exercise dork. Just call me a trendsetter.
By the time she turned 50, Sharon Monaghan had developed a habit of repeating herself. Then came lapses in memory and judgment. At first, she blamed her cancer treatment. One day, she got frighteningly lost on the way to the doctor.
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Seattle Met’s annual Top Doctors rankings are in. Over 4,500 doctors in the Seattle metropolitan area participated in our 2012 survey, the result of a partnership between Seattle Met and...
When a prominent Eastside community member suffered a relatively serious eye injury during a local basketball game, it seemed guaranteed that he’d spend the rest of the day in the emergency room. In Washington, the average ER visit lasts five...
“The brain is one of our final frontiers for exploration, and it’s a very beautiful machine,” says Dr. Amy Bernard, director of structured science at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. In March 2012, Paul Allen committed an additional $300...
In 2011, Harborview Medical Center and 278 of its patients took part in a yearlong study to test a program providing online access to medical records—doctor notes, lab results, medications, and more. The program, called OpenNotes, allows...
Visitors to Swedish’s new state-of-the-art Multiple Sclerosis Center are welcomed by a flourishing affirmation of life. Live potted plants fill the lobby wall of the 11,700-square-foot facility from floor to ceiling. The $4.2 million MS Center,...
If you have benefited from massage therapy, acupuncture, or any form of naturopathic care, you can be thankful that you live in Washington. Our state has the most licensed naturopathic physicians (NDs) in the nation, making it a longtime leader...
Sergeant Ashley Thayer, a Yakima native, joined the army in 2007 and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011, while deployed in Afghanistan, she suffered a spinal cord injury, which resulted in two back surgeries, including a spinal fusion. Her...
In July, more than 500 twenty- and thirtysomethings, along with keynote speaker Melinda Gates, gathered at McCaw Hall to party and raise money and awareness for global health. The bash was sponsored by Agency (formerly Party with a Purpose), an...
Maple Valley middle schooler Zackery Lystedt suffered a permanent brain injury in 2006 when, following a concussion, he was allowed to continue playing in a school football game and suffered further blows to the head. He underwent two brain...
When Montie Christodoulou gave birth to her first child, she was lying down. “If I was uncomfortable, it was too bad.” During labor with her second child last year at the Group Health Family Beginnings Unit on Capitol Hill, Christodoulou moved...
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