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The Pack Horses and Mules of White Pass Trail
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Mollie Walsh: The Angel of White Pass
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How to Kill, Cook, and eat dungeness crab
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A Life on the Water: Brett Fitzgerald and the Angler Action Foundation
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Filson Food: Surf & Turf Alaskan Style
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How to Kill, Cook, and eat dungeness crab
Filson and the U.S. Forest Service share unbreakable ties to our wildlands and a relationship that dates to the early 1900s.
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Wyman Meinzer: Capturing the Soul of the Wild
Meinzer, a man Field and Stream magazine has called an outdoor legend. That is just one of a long list of accolades he has accrued over a lifetime of documenting...
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Lianna Spooner: preserving traditions & the environment
There's been a revival in the art of "packing" in recent years. Homesteaders Lianna Spooner and her partner Chris Eyer spend part of their year working with the U.S. Forest...
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Chloe Ivanoff: finding her sea legs
Shortly after Ivanoff began working seasonal jobs in geology, she started to feel she’d missed an important rite of passage by not having spent a summer living and working aboard...
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Alaskan Musher: Lauro Eklund
With his father, Neil Eklund, Lauro spends long days working with his dogs and exploring Alaska’s remote and rugged interior. With hopes his dogs will one day soon lead the...
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The Fire Inside: Photographer Kiliii Yüyan
Award-winning National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan, joined us on our recent trip to the Alaskan Arctic, where he was consumed in his mission to capture the stoic essence of a...
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James Reeves: The Mule Packer
“When I walk into any pack station or ranch, I know from the get-go that I'm probably not going to look like anyone else who works there. But anyone who...
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Trent Peterson: The Way Forward
During a trip to the Sierra Nevada's in 2015 he first set his eyes on the mountains he now calls home while scouting the area for a planned horse traverse...
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THE PASSION: RANGE RIDER DANIEL CURRY
As a range rider, Daniel Curry patrols the rugged wilderness of Colville National Forest in eastern Washington through all seasons and weather. He will spend weeks working tirelessly day and...
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Bringing the Ocean’s Bounty to Market in Southeast Alaska
Barnacle, by producing food products that require large amounts of kelp, and purchasing that kelp from the communities who are farming it, is helping to build not only a business,...
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Matt Mendes of Spin the Handle: Chasing Reservation Chrome
Before Matt Mendes guided on the Deschutes River, he drove the Green Monster. It was 2002, and Mendes was 13 years old; the job was his first on the river....
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Lael Johnson - Olympic Peninsula Fly Guide
Lael Johnson is a fly fisherman and guide on the Olympic Peninsula. His passion for the anadromous fish of Washington’s coastal rivers is contagious. He loves these fish, these rivers,...
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Return of the Icons: Grizzly Bear Reintroduction
Grizzly bears. An icon of the West. A keystone predator that can weigh up to 600 pounds. Their thick, lush fur can range from dark brown to nearly towhead blonde....
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Conservation Northwest: Keeping the Northwest Wild
For the 7.5 million residents of Washington state, most, if not all, have used or will use I-90 at some point. This interstate connects the two largest cities in the...
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North Cascades: Bastion of the Wild
Sitting like stone guardians just below the Canadian border, the North Cascade mountains are keepers of the wildness that once roamed unchecked across North America. Soaring high into the skies,...
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Climber Fred Beckey: Spirit of the Mountains
If you listen hard enough, you can hear Fred Beckey’s spirit whispering among the towering peaks and hidden valleys of the Northern Cascades. Around campfires, bar tops, or anywhere that...
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Zech Bennett: The Undersea Tradesman
When you meet Zech Bennett, he seems like a pretty ordinary guy. Not too tall or too short, he seems somewhat in shape but is not a chiseled gym rat....
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Renowned Artist and Activist: Ray Troll
Ray’s Alaska adventure started in 1983, when he moved here to help his sister open a seafood retail store in Ketchikan. Ray soon turned to art to document his experiences...
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Deep Sea Fishermen's Union
Back at the turn of the last century, a hardy group of men roamed the wooden docks of Seattle. Grizzled and gruff, they would spend days out on the unpredictable...
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The Glaciers of the North Cascades
North Cascades National Park counts more than 300 glaciers along this northwestern spine of mountains—and that’s just inside the park boundaries. The North Cascades are the most glaciated place in...
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Puget Soundkeeper: On the Water Every Week, Stopping Pollution Every Day
On any given day, Puget Soundkeeper’s boat patrol team can be seen monitoring the waters of Puget Sound for illegal pollution and activities that violate the health of our waterways....
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Paul Roberts - the Man Behind the Mustache
Father, husband, firefighter, engineer, hockey player, Black Belt, personal trainer, and grave digger—just some of the titles that Paul Roberts has or currently holds. We caught up with Paul to...
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WSDOT Ferries
Twenty thousand years ago, a glacier tall as six Space Needles whittled the valley between the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, leaving a complex inland seascape. The First Nations people who...
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Seattle Maritime Academy - 50 Years of Training Seaworthy Mariners
Long before Seattle was a tech town, or even an aviation town, it was a maritime town. In fact, it still is. And although some brag that Seattle has more...
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The Ocean's Top Predator: Puget Sound Orcas
Black fins sliced the water and rose higher and higher, close to our boat. With a puff and a blow, the orcas surfaced: members of J pod, the southern resident...
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Bay Weld Boats
The shop is loud. Metal screams on metal. Chop saws, band saws, air saws, table saws, skilsaws, drills, grinders, and welders all sculpt, slice, and meld aluminum plate and extrusion...
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Kate Mitchell - NOMAR
An old homesteader once told Kate Mitchell, “That was about the year you figured you weren’t going to starve to death.” By then, much of the community enjoyed wanton luxuries...
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The Salty Dawg Saloon
In the Middle East and Europe you can visit places built over 2,000 years ago. In Alaska you are unlikely to see anything older than 50. That’s what makes the...
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Leif Whittaker: My Old Man & the Mountain
My Old Man and the Mountain is Leif Whittaker's engaging and humorous story of what it was like to "grow up Whittaker"―the youngest son of Jim Whittaker and Dianne Roberts, in...
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The Puzzle Master: Kathy Burek
Anyone who has ever spent hours huddled over a puzzle knows the joy of finally figuring it out. Whether it’s an obscure image coming together piece by piece, that head-scratcher...
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Western Flyer: The Vessel of John Steinbeck
On the morning of Monday, March 11, 1940, writer John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts boarded the sardine seiner Western Flyer at a wharf in Monterey, California. Both men...
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For the Love of Wooden Boats: Port Townsend's Shipwrights Co-Op
Southeast of Port Townsend is a gravel yard where large boats balance on blocks of wood and slender steel stands. Removed from the water, the vessels reveal pleasing, functional curves....
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Rick Myers: Profile of an Illustrator
In Rick Myers's garage sits a hand-built dingy—shiny with newness, waiting patiently for water. Adjacent, the oars that will propel it lie unfinished across two sawhorses. The illustrator holds a...
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Avalanche Dog Noses: Your Best Chance of Survival
Up in the mountains, avalanches are part of the territory. If you’re lucky, you might only see or hear one. But on the off chance you get caught, there’s little...
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The O'Hair Ranch
Before there were O’Hairs, there were Armstrongs. And like most homesteaders, the Armstrongs arrived at Paradise Valley, Montana, by way of misfortune looking for fortune. In 1878, Owen T. Armstrong...
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Maine Guides
Maine Guides are an institution just as iconic in the Northeast as lobster fishermen. They’re stitched into Maine’s landscape—a mythical place of famous coastline and rivers, as well as vast...
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Trade Stories: Phillip Lee McGinnis, Sublette County Cowboy
Raised in a small town in Illinois, Phillip Lee McGinnis grew up working for a horse trainer and knew early on he wanted to become a cowboy. After a tour...
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Trade Stories: Aleph Geddis, Wood Sculptor
Aleph Geddis, a wood sculptor from Orcas Island, WA, has spent the last four months in his carving shed working on a one-of-a-kind piece of art for our flagship retail...
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Jerry Cohen, Owner of Ebbets Field Flannels
Ebbets Field Flannels has been a Pioneer Square mainstay for over 25 years. The iconic Seattle company manufactures historically inspired athletic apparel, ranging from wool baseball flannels to 8-panel caps,...
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