Mount Defiance in Oregon is the highest peak in the Columbia River Gorge -- and a rigorous, challenging hike for those who choose to hike the steeper trail to its summit. You'll be rewarded with incredible views of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams.
Peace Valley BC locals fight Site C dam, what's being done to save orcas?, Portland doesn't think court ruling will affect homeless rules, no one fights fires in no man's land, Seattle bookseller Barbara Bailey dies, and an essay by J. Jill Robinson.
Residents of British Columbia's Peace Valley -- including members of the Saulteau First Nations -- are fighting the controversial Site C dam project, which would flood their land and alter the region's ecology. Alison Bate talks with families whose lives have been turned upside down by the project.
Seattle Mariners: 1, affordable housing: 0; should Indigenous people have more say on oil & gas projects? Nike gambles on Kaepernick, fixing WA's troubled mental health system, Tara Campbell's essay on growing up in Skamania county, and poetry by Constance Schultz.
Into Cascadia's wilderness, Oregon schools start with new security measures, one year after Eagle Creek fire, tariffs hit small solar companies, big boost for Vancouver transit, Seattle artist Anthony White engages with trash, and an interview with memoirist Kelly Sundberg.
More on Trans Mountain pipeline ruling, secrets inside Cascadia's trees, feds making safe injection in Seattle difficult, sexual assault rates high among Indigenous women, a pirate Seattle radio station, an essay of addiction by a BC mountain climber, and an interview with Portland author Patrick deWitt.
An interview with the founders of The Evergrey & Bridgeliner, Canadian court rejects BC pipeline expansion, 800K salmon to be farmed in WA despite phase-out, a quarter of BC wildfires started by humans, a UBC author helps women to reclaim desire, an essay by Michelle Zauner, & much more...
Writer Paul Lask spent a week with an all-female crew taking tree core samples in the forests of northeast Oregon, a place of rich natural beauty. The rigorous work helps researchers determine the ways in which human activity is altering the ecology of the Blue Mountains.
Hike among marmots at Mount Rainier, smoke clears -- for some -- in Cascadia, legal pot's waste problem, Jean Swanson goes to prison protesting pipelines, Seattle considers modular housing for homeless, Portland is now Scooterville, Cult of Orpheus shakes up classical music, & poetry by Erin Malone.
Though the famed ice caves are long gone from the Paradise Glacier Trail at Mount Rainier, you'll still find wildflowers, marmots, and a view of the glaciers on the flanks of Mount Rainier -- all without the crowds near the Paradise visitor center.
