photography McGuire Lookout In 1923, a well-windowed wood cabin was erected on top of McGuire Mountain, for the purpose of detecting forest fires in the area around Eureka, Montana. Eureka sits in a valley between mountain
hiking Summit Lake The view of Mount Rainier from Summit Lake is a classic, used on countless souvenir postcards and calendars. The popularity of this hike makes it a tough place to find any solitude, but
hiking Earl Peak Earl Peak offers amazing views in all directions, but you have to work to get there: 7.5 miles round trip and about 3600 feet of elevation gain. We hiked to the top
hiking Skyline Divide Trail Skyline Divide offers spectacular 360-degree views of Mount Baker (Koma Kulshan) and surrounding areas that begin just two miles up the steep trail, and it's outside North Cascades National Park so dogs are
hiking Rock Creek Trail This rarely traveled hike spans the full range of central Cascades terrain, from the banks of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River up through second-growth and old growth forests to spectacular Snow Lake in
