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Article: Firs, flies and falls on a Cascades hike
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 23, 1988
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SEATTLE Did we want to hike tall mountains with magnificent views or
luxuriate on a sunny island?
We couldn't decide. So we flew to northwest Washington and did
both.
At noon on a sunny Saturday in Seattle, four of us piled into a
1967 Chevy II and drove northeast toward the mountains. By 1:30, we
had checked into a motor lodge in Darrington, a lumber town crippled
by a bitter lumberman's strike. By 2, we were hiking in the North
Cascades.
We meandered along a well-maintained trail along shimmering,
silver Sulphur Creek. What I still can't get out of my head were
those enormous Douglas fir trees, many more than 300 feet tall and so
wide the four of us together couldn't stretch ...
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