After the Burn: Returning to Mount Adams A Publication of Washington Trails Association | wta.org Fire Lookouts: Their History in Washington Sep+Oct 2013 Hike the Kettle Crest Trail NW Weekend at Sandpoint Camp Kitchen Essentials Sep+Oct 2013 26 18 50 After the Burn: Mount Adams » Darryl Lloyd NW Explorer Last year, the south and west sides of Mount Adams burned in a raging wildfire. One year later, the forest is rapidly recovering Fire Lookouts » Deanna Duff amid a transformed landscape. » p.24 They stand on many of the highest peaks throughout Washington, sentinels to the safety and protection of NW Weekend: Lake Pend Oreille » Aaron Theisen our forests. Take a trip back in time and discover the Escape east of the border for a camping weekend on the origin and romance of these iconic structures, and why shores of one of the deepest lakes in the U.S. » p.28 some still stand and others are long gone. Then pick Epic Trails: Kettle Crest » Aaron Theisen one—or all!—and add some new heights to your fall Explore the meadows and mountaintops of northeast hiking to-do list. » p.18 Washington on this 44-mile weekend trek. » p.50 News+Views Trail Mix WTA's Northwest Trail Talk » Gear Closet » WT Gear Team U.S. Forest Service Volunteer Ranger Dial up your backcountry cooking with the Exposure is here! Coordinator Marta Sheridan » p.7 ultimate camp kitchen accessories » p.32 Enter for your chance to win Hiking News » Tales from the Trail » Craig Romano great prizes, including a brand- New view trail at Mount St. Helens » p.8 100 years in the Okanogan: the Mount new Nikon DSLR! » p.38 Storms impact North Cascades roads » p.10 Bonaparte fire lookout »p.36 Nature Nook » Tami Asars Birds, beasts and blooms in the NW: owls and WTA at Work toads and mushrooms, oh my! » p.37 Trail Work » Sarah Rich 20 years of maintenance memories » p.12 Snapshot » Paul Raymaker It’s time for Northwest Exposure. How to Action for Trails » Jonathan Guzzo capture perfect trailscapes » p.39 WWRP funds trails across Washington » p.16 Hike It » Lookouts Youth & Family » Susan Elderkin Long or short, they’re a lot of up—but the views Tips for hiking with kids » p.17 from the top make them all worth it! » p.41 2 Washington Trails | Sep+Oct 2013 | wta.org Guest Contributors TAMI ASARS is a writer, photographer and career hiker. She has spent her lifetime exploring D ARRYL LLOYD grew up at the base of Mount the trails and backcountry in Washington, from Adams with his twin brother, Darvel. Together, the Olympic Coast to the Okanogan, and all they started climbing and photographing Cascade points in between. In addition to working on her volcanoes at the age of ten. In 1970, they founded second Washington hiking guidebook, Tami is a and co-directed the Mount Adams Wilderness regular contributor to Washington Trails' hiking Institute, a program supporting wilderness and nature sections. Tami lives in North Bend mountaineering and natural history instruction, and with her husband and their dog, Summit. are active with Friends of Mount Adams. Darryl is a freelance photographer and lives in Hood River, OR. TERESA BLACK became frustrated with what was available for backcountry recipe ideas and set P AUL RAYMAKER is a geologist who out to create her own using a lifetime of hiking discovered nature photography while spending a and camping experience. She has published three summer in the mountains of Colorado. Since then, recipe books, and her dishes have been featured he hasn’t put his camera down. Nature photography in Backpacker. Her philosophy: with a little is now Paul’s passion, his goal being to show others creativity, eating well in the backcountry is easy. the beauty that surrounds us, and encouraging Teresa is currently the president of the American others to care for their environment. Despite having Long Distance Hiking Association West. recently moved from Seattle to St. Louis Park, MN, Paul is still a regular contributor to Washington Trails. DEANNA DUFF is a Washington native and award-winning freelance writer. She has a deeply- CraiG ROmanO grew up in rural New rooted love of the outdoors thanks to decades Hampshire, where he bonded with the natural working on her family’s organic farm. She regularly world. He is the author of nine books, including travels the Northwest exploring and writing about the new Day Hiking: Eastern Washington, its outdoor charms with coverage ranging from Backpacking Washington, and Columbia Highlands: recreational fun to environmental issues. She has Exploring Washington’s Last Frontier, which was repeatedly been honored by the Washington Press recognized in 2010 as a Washington Reads book Association for her regional and national coverage. for its contribution to the state’s cultural heritage. He lives with his wife, Heather, in Skagit County. JOHN FLOBERG serves as executive director of the Washington State Parks Foundation. Although ARA ON THEISEN is a Spokane-based free- he originally hails from NYC, Washington’s peaks, lance writer and photographer specializing in coastlines, rivers and vast open spaces called to the wild places of the Inland Northwest. Among him. He is forever grateful to call this place his Aaron’s many hats, he is the editor of the Friends home: for the subalpine meadows, the hulking of the Columbia Highlands website, works with giant trees and for more adventures to be had than the Washington Native Plant Society and is one in a lifetime of wanderings. John is in his happy of Washington Trails' top regional contributors, place. in addition to his primary job as a stay-at-home father to his young son. Cover Shot BILL Edwards captured this west-facing view of Tolmie Peak Lookout on a sunny September weekday. Built in 1933 the lookout has a commanding view of the north side of Mount Rainier from Tolmie Peak’s 5,939-foot summit in the northwest corner of the park. In this image, Bill’s hiking partner Rainer relaxes and contemplates the view across Eunice Lake to the mountain, while Bill captured the lookout in a 360-degee panoramic image. This issue’s cover is just a small portion of the entire image, as seen here. You can see more of Bill’s amazing 360-degree photography at 360cities.net/profile/billedwards. Washington Trails | Sep+Oct 2013 | wta.org 3 Washington Trails Association C elebrate with WTA! Join us on the week- end of September 14th at Common- Staff Picks: What is your most important camp kitchen essential? wealth Basin on the PCT—one of the first places WTA B oard of Directors ever worked. President WENDY WHEELER JACOBS – Hand wipes WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION We’ll have special VP, Advocacy STEPHEN TAN – Spork treats this weekend. 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