Get Lost in the Kulshan Quest By Ian Ferguson This summer, a new race is coming to Bellingham with a course that will be a carefully guarded secret until race day. Half an hour before the starting …

Summer Night Skies By Pat Grubb In summer, these latitudes are marked by long days and short nights, at least until June 22 when the days begin to grow shorter again. Compared to southern latitudes, …

High Seas Sailing on the tall ships of yore By Sue Madsen The Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain When I arrived in Bellingham in the late 1990s as a landlubber from Montana, I was fascinated with …

Welcome to the neighborhood Bikesport opens in Bellingham's Fountain Disctrict By Ian Ferguson On the surface, Bellingham’s newest bike shop has an uphill battle to differentiate itself from the …

Wilderness First Responder Courses By Cory Tarilton Four days, 30 miles, and two drainages removed from civilization, your summer backpacking trip in the Olympics comes to a screeching halt. While …

Traversing the American Alps A photographer's account By Jason Hummel In June 2013, photographer/backcountry skier Jason Hummel and professional splitboarder Kyle Miller hiked and skied the Cascade …

Surfing Northwest By Sue Madsen Em called to cancel our meeting. “Something’s come up,” she said. “Can we reschedule for next week?” I looked out the window noting the down-valley wind, and …

Indoor Flow Burlington Bike Park By Brandy Shreve When freestyle park designer Joseph Prisel dreams, he dreams big. This time around it took 40 semi truckloads of dirt to make his vision of an indoor …

Leave No Trace By Aneka Singlaub, Youth Leadership Coordinator at North Cascades Institute “I win, I win, I win,” announced an elated 14-year-old boy as he scrambled up the trail flaunting what …

Rock Climbing with Kids By Jason Martin. Photo by Jeremy Wilson. “Daddy,” my five-year-old son said. “Can we go to the rock gym today?” “I don’t wanna go to the rock gym,” my …

Scrambles in the North Cascades By Aubrey Laurence scram•ble: (noun) A mountain climbing route that involves low-level rock climbing. The grade is low enough that ropes are not necessary, but the …

Dam, That's Nice By Ian Ferguson James Delmage (J.D.) Ross was one of those legendary men of genius born in the late 19th century whose ideas would prove world-changing. He successfully engineered …

Coleman Glacier Ski 4/12/14 on Vimeo . A few friends and I made a dawn-patrol trip to the Coleman Glacier on the northwest shoulder of Mt. Baker. We ran into pro snowboarder Maria DeBari and her …

Introducing the Rock Trail I first encountered the Rock Trail when a mountain biker pointed it out to me while I was covering the Chuckanut Enduro last fall. I descended a series of stair sets from …

Don’t poke the dragon in the eye Why every backcountry traveller should take an avalanche course By Ian Ferguson Digging snow pits in the Mt. Baker backcountry. Photo by John Grace, courtesy AAI. …

This video by contributor Dylan Hart takes the mystery out of mounting your splitboard bindings and setting up your skins. It's also a good look at how Voilé pucks, Spark R&D's new Tesla system …

Document your pre-tour routine on film, and you could win two days of cat skiing with Monashee Powder Snowcats, four days of skiing for two at any resort in the U.S., skis, an airbag pack, GoPro, …

Jake Merrill: an adventurous life Jake Heckathorn Merrill, 23, of Bellingham, died in an avalanche in the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon on February 11. He was guiding clients in a party of eight when …

2014 Legendary Banked Slalom at Mt. Baker Ski Area The results are in! First, some notes about how the race went down this year... For the first time ever, the Legendary Banked Slalom course extended …

Flowing down the mountain By Ian Ferguson Photo by Patrick O'Neil John Adams, co-owner of Glacier Ski Shop, is pretty easy to pick out on the ski slope. You can usually spot him out on the Shuksan …