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his book of photographs and essays tell about our love of the high country and the beauty of the trees and snags we find and often visit again. Many of the photographs are from an area that we have visited the last 28 years in a row in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. When we go snagging or photographing snags, we are finding these natural pieces of art in an alpine setting, where the wood may be weathered to a silvered hardness, a lustrous shine, varied...

The Evergreen State abounds in diverse wilderness to explore. Washington's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide takes you there -- from Pacific beaches on the Olympic Peninsula to the Blue Mountains in the southeast, from the glorious Mount Rainier National Park to the remote Salmo-Priest Wilderness along the Canada and Idaho borders. Climb up the rugged Sawtooth Ridge near Lake Chelan, hike cross-country in the Juniper Dunes Wilderness near Pasco,...

"Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness 'as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.' Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails,...