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Get Outside: Old Glory Mountain
With fine weather returning to western Cascadia this week, it’s time to plan a summer adventure! If you live in British Columbia and are up for a challenging summit hike, check out Craig Romano’s latest pick at Cascadia Magazine: Old Glory Mountain in the Rossland Range outside of Trail, BC.
It’s not an easy trek, but you’ll be rewarded with fantastic views of peaks on both sides of the BC-Washington border. Not to mention a kaleidoscope of wildflowers on the way to the lookout cabin at the top.
Find the full write-up complete with photos, trail route, and driving directions online at Cascadia Magazine here.
Missing and murdered women of the Yakama Nation
The Yakima Herald-Republic has a detailed on-line feature on the horrible prevalence of murder and disappearance among women of the Yakama Nation in Washington (on some reservations, Indigenous women are murdered at a rate 10 times the US average). The interactive feature includes individual stories, including the recent murder of Alillia “Lala” Minthorn.
Six opponents of BC’s Trans Mountain pipeline
The Star Vancouver profiles six opponents of the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline across BC, looking at next strategies, including legal fights, tiny houses built by First Nations activist Kanahus Manuel, and a young person’s climate-change legal challenge.
Confronting homelessness through climbing
Crystal Paul at the Seattle Times has a great profile of the Recovery Beyond program, a nonprofit that helps people struggling with homelessness and addiction take control of their lives training for and completing a climb of Washington’s Mount Baker. ““Now I’m climbing up and hiking, surrounded by different people. You’re just going up on this big ol’ mountain away from the city, and I felt free” says a member of the program.
Passionate about the Portland Pickles
While Portland makes a move toward getting a Major League Baseball team, the city’s diehard baseball fans currently flock to see the scrappy Portland Pickles, profiled by OPB. They’re part of the West Coast League that includes a bunch of great Cascadia minor league teams, including the Victoria Harbourcats and the Walla Walla Sweets.
Living on BC’s ferry-less Gulf Islands
Over at BC BookLook you can read Howard Stewart’s review of Joy Davis’ new book Complicated Simplicitty. The book profiles people living on small islands in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands that have no ferry service and often no electricity. Such simplicity of life is often expensive, hence the “complicated” in the title.
That’s tonight’s selection of news & culture from across the Cascadia bioregion. One note of correction: a British Columbia reader pointed out an error in a newsletter this week: the leader of Canada is not known as a “premier” but rather a “prime minister.” Premiers are heads of states in provinces. Cascadia Daily would like our BC readers to know we’re paying attention and continually learning about life and politics north of the 49th parallel. –Andrew Engelson
Photo credit: logo courtesy of the Portland Pickles.