The snow is melting, Mount Baker Highway is cleared and the itch to return to the North Cascades has once again settled in my soul. My desire, however, to post-hole through lingering snow piles or ...

In an earlier era, hydroelectric dams were often seen as a win-win: producing electricity without burning fossil fuel, and creating reservoirs where the growing local population could boat and fish – ...

BAKER LAKE -- We were virtually alone with the eagles and old-growth, paddling the misty shores of a popular North Cascades lake that felt surprisingly wild, unmistakably in the presence of two ...