A small caveat to summer travel in Seattle is wildfire smoke that blows in from across the American West and British Columbia. A few smoky days are nearly guaranteed during the Seattle summer, and how many depends on several variable conditions. While it's hard to predict months in advance w...
While Everett may look clean and green now, its numerous mills in the past had dozens of smokestacks along the horizon. The City of Forks, WA Welcome sign with the words "The Logging Capital of the World." Getty / Canva Forks Like many cities in Washington, Forks has along history with...
“This is pretty early in the season to be experiencing so many days where temperatures are record breaking. It’s worrisome. It’s just June,” said Deepti Singh, a climate scientist and assistant professor at WSU Vancouver. “This should be a warning sign ...
We left our stop in Wrangell after two days, but we actually had 9 miles of paddling just to reach downtown. The forecast was for a high pressure system to move in for the rest of the week, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but by the time we started paddling, there was al...
eddy where we were parked, then finally filling in the middle of the river until it all ran brown. A flash flood had come pouring down the Badger Canyon just across the river from us. Amazing how the muddy water shows how the water flows within the river like smoke does in a wind ...