Summer 2007

Photo by Brett Baunton

Featured Articles

What’s new in Foothills business?
• Mt. Baker Farmer’s Market begins first season
• Couple buys Crossroads Grocery
• Certified Rolfing services

Flowers of the mountain
Take a slow hike on ocal trails and that is the danger you face - becoming a flower child. There could be worse fates, we suppose.

In Search Of Fishtown
The delta of the Skagit River is a vast, flat plain of marsh grass, sand bars and mazes of tributaries that trail off into oblivion. During the winter and spring months, high rainfall and snowmelt creates a surge of muddy brown water carrying huge tree trunks from upstream and depositing them here, in a sort of tree graveyard.

The Enforcer
“Potato Man” came to La Conner hoping to tap into the emerging tourist market, selling baked potatoes from a push cart. His prepared presentation to the Historic Preservation/Planning Commission (HP/PC) made the commissioners salivate.

Into the wild, blue yonder
Flying in a typical commercial jetliner can be one of the most uncomfortable modes of travel. With narrow seats and passengers crammed into the cabin like sardines, it’s no wonder so many individuals have an aversion to flying, myself included.

Get Your Fresh Berries Here
Places to find berries locally

Row, row, row your boat
Rowing is an almost perfect combination of exercise and solitude. It offers as much hard work as you want against the deceptively heavy resistance of water along with the beauty of the form-follows-function equipment, not to mention the pristine quality of the places where one goes to do such a thing.

Paddling & Camping On Diablo Lake
Summertime is the high time for the Cascades, and Diablo Lake is no exception, with its bright aquamarine water, created by fine rock sediment from glacial runoff. Why not maximize the glorious sunny days with a multi-day paddle and camping adventure in the glassy water, where privacy and mountain views await?

And playing at first, is...
In 1957 a baseball team from Deming took the field at Battersby Park against the semi-pro Bellingham Bells. The visitors started the big right-hander Lawrence “Red” Zender on the mound, pitching to his long-time battery mate Dick Zender, a one-time all-American.

Steiner property sold
Jake Steiner’s back yard looks out on one of the last stands of Sitka Spruce left on the north fork of the Nooksack River. Last year Steiner, 89, decided to sell the property intact to the Whatcom Land Trust to preserve it because “I want people to be able to enjoy what it was once like here,” he said.

A peaceful retreat
For Rodrick Williams, of Seattle, the idea for his Peaceful Mountain Retreat Center came to him in a mid-night vision.
“I woke up at 3 a.m. and I had this vision to draw a picture of building design I had twirling in my head,” he said.

Nickee Magnuson dies
Mabel Isabel Nichols “Nickee” Magnuson passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. She and her husband Al founded the Mount Baker Experience in 1987.