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Article: VIEW FROM DIRTY HARRY'S BALCONY WILL MAKE YOUR DAY.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 27, 2000
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If you've ever had the feeling you were being watched as you drove west on Interstate 90 near North Bend, you might be right. Hikers could be looking down on you from Dirty Harry's Balcony.
Most motorists and hikers don't know about Dirty Harry or the old roads and trails he left behind after a career of logging everything he could get his hands on.
Apparently Harry, who lived in North Bend, had a reputation for taking trees most other loggers would disdain and, like an existential anti-hero fighting personal demons, he put in roads where others feared to tread.
Not much remains from Dirty Harry's heyday but healing clearcuts, rumors of old ...