Portrait of the female adult.Hoary marmot mother and pup.Female marmot sounding an alarm whistle.Female adult on foggy sentry duty.Female hoary marmot and pup on foggy morning.A marmot pup plays with its tail.Adult male hoary marmot relaxing.Lean to the left, lean to the right ...Adult male...
The sight is jarring and seems completely out of context. It’s akin to, I don’t know, seeing an elephant walking down a city street. That unexpected, at least to me. This is how I saw what I saw, leading me to break this story at…
The mixed blessing of record low snowpack along the West Coast is that access to national parks is earlier than usual – in some cases, far earlier. National parks, from North Cascades in Washington state to Yosemite in California, are already are virtually at summer…
This down-and-back has a lot of what the average hiker might look for — enough up and down for aerobic challenges but not too strenuous for children and the creaky kneed, nice wildflowers and foliage, a couple of good payoff lake destinations, and breath-taking views…
In Seattle, when you suggest, “Let’s go walk Green Lake,” you head by the Woodland Park Zoo and brave the crowds around the paved pedestrian/wheeled path. In this iteration, you have an emerald-green alpine lake probably all to yourselves, listen to the roar of a…
