MBE Summer 2017
How to: Choosing footwear for climbing in the mountains
By Jason D. Martin
The Cascades are a wildly diverse mountain range. We have glaciers and snowfields, we have talus and boulders, we have water...
All the trails: Riding all the mountain bike trails in Bellingham...
By Spencer Paxson
On a dim and drizzly Sunday afternoon I lugged my bike up the steep hill to my house after a long ride....
Getting Started With Spring Foraging
By Amy Gibson
As winter winds down, green life emerges in the forest once again. You may notice foragers off-trail, filling baskets with robust leaves,...
Postcards: Greetings from a slow car (but fast house)
By Nick Belcaster and Evan Skoczenski
If you parked in the Heather Meadows lot of Mt. Baker this winter you may have picked out a...
Skagit Land Trust acquires 1,000 acres of key habitat
By Oliver Lazenby
Photos courtesy of Skagit Land Trust
Earlier this spring the Skagit Land Trust acquired 1,000 acres of land east of Concrete in the...
Ode to Randy Hook: Remembering a Mt. Baker legend
By Maya Hunger
On January 1, the Mt. Baker Ski Area quietly greeted the new year. It was a calm and clear morning and the...
New access for the Nooksack?
By Wendy McDermott
American Rivers director for Rivers of Puget Sound and Columbia Basin
The Nooksack River is one of the only rivers in Washington that...
Neck stretches, an antidote to the asymmetry of snowboarding
By Luca Williams
Do you remember your first days learning to snowboard? I started with farm boots and my boyfriend’s 161-centimeter snowboard (did I mention...
Experiencing Canada’s Mount Baker on the Wapta Traverse
Story and photos By Jason Griffith
When we reached our destination we’d been on the go since before first light, trying to beat the forecasted...
A Different Kind of Hardcore: A quest to ride every day...
By Oliver Lazenby
One day in 2013, a soaking wet Albert Arth stood on the shoulder of Highway 542 with his thumb out for three...
