Adventure
Washington trail map app provides real-time recreation updates
The TREAD Map app provides alerts and real-time updates for outdoor enthusiasts to avoid crowds and trail impediments.
The app incorporates Washington’s trail systems, waterways,...
Traversing Washington’s peaks
Jason Hummel skis from the Columbia River to U.S./Canada border over more than a decade
By Jason Hummel
Across the years and plains of those days...
Evolution of backcountry communication
By Jason D. Martin
In the old days if there was an accident in the backcountry, the general thinking was that you would send a...
Jeremy Jones: Shralpinism
Review by Meg Olson
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains
Jeremy Jones
Mountaineers Books
In “The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mounatins,” legendary snowboarder and...
Freeskiing with the spirit of Elijah Lee
By Luca Williams
As the snow falls, Elijah, or Eli, trudges up the hill with his skis, alongside the other first chair fanatics. It’s still...
360 Degrees
Hummel finishes The Circumnavigation Project on Mt. Baker
Story and photos by Jason Hummel
The knowledge of a mountain, the true understanding of where it is...
Tidepooling Tongue Point
By Ian Ferguson
Pitch black, it was the middle of winter, late in the evening. The wind was howling — cold creeping through the cracks...
Sehome Hill Arboretum bouldering guide
Select Rock Climbing and Bouldering Guide
Story and photos by Jason D. Martin
Overlooking all of Bellingham, Sehome Hill Arboretum has long been a place for...
Winging it
New watersport will take you flying around Bellingham Bay
By Tony Moceri
If there is one thing that stays constant in our corner of the world,...
Adams River sockeye run
Travel 4 hours to a once every 4 years phenomenon
By Eric Lucas
I call it the real riverdance.
Four million gorgeous natural acrobats, a six-mile performance...