Cover - Cormorants on the Puget Sound and Vashon Island

Chas Guldemond in Lake Tahoe

Truckee, CA

Emma checks out the Sacramento River, near Mount Shasta, definitely not So Cal anymore. Although So Cal does get water from the Sacramento river, almost 700 miles away, via a series of water projects that are at huge risk of failing and the governor wants to spend billions to fix the water projects but you know, who needs water? Certainly no one in So Cal as long they make BMW's and Mercedes


Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Northwest Snowboards in Tacoma (and Gig Harbor and Olympia), around for 22 years and counting, more on that later www.nwsnowboards.com

Tacoma and Mount Rainier over the Puget Sound

Port Townsend Skatepark on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington

Fresh tracks in the Olympic National Park, Hurricane Ridge, WA

Mount Baker across the Puget Sound

Surf Washington, wait what, that's Canada in the background. Surfing at the end of a day that included snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing in one day, in Washington. Water temp 46 degrees, air temp, 46 degrees

It's a good thing it rains so much up here because it is so beautiful at every turn that everyone would move here, so keep the rain coming
The Cascade Mountains

Mount Shuksan and the White Salmon day lodge of Mount Baker, more on everything later...