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March 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM
A top 10 list of Northwest outdoors places and adventures: What’s yours?
Backpackers start off toward Camp Muir on Mount Rainier. (Photo by Mike Siegel / Seattle Times)
Bellingham’s Mike McQuaide, who has written about outdoors experiences for The Seattle Times for a dozen years, is moving to Europe. McQuaide’s parting story for Times readers is a roundup of his top 10 outdoors places and adventures around the Northwest and British Columbia.
McQuaide’s favorite things range from hiking the Enchantments in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to family-camping on Orcas Island.
Take a look, and tell us your favorite places if they’re not on the list. Or just vote for your favorite hiking place.
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Kristin Jackson, travel editor at The Seattle Times, grew up in Italy, went to university in Britain, and worked as a journalist in London and Vancouver, B.C., before migrating back to Seattle where she’s happy at her desk but way happier on the road.
Brian J. Cantwell, Outdoors editor at The Seattle Times, is a Seattle native who chose not to leave -- except for every chance he gets to go someplace interesting or adventurous. He lives on his sailboat at Shilshole Bay Marina.
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