Wild Roads Washington

Author : Seabury Blair Jr.
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 163217510X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Roads Washington, 2nd Edition written by Seabury Blair Jr. and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you love living on the road or are just fighting the Sunday scaries, discover the 80 best scenic drives to camping, trails, and adventures in Washington! Now fully updated with 5 new roads, Wild Roads Washington is perfect for roadtripping enthusiasts, RV-ers, and #vanlifers looking to explore the best vistas the state has to offer. Experience some serious road rave with drives that take you to the most beautiful places in Washington State, such as: Views of Mount Rainier at the end of the road to Sun Top Vistas of Lake Cushman and Hoot Canal from atop Mount Ellinor in the OlympicsPicnics amid alpine scenery at Salmon Meadows in the Okanogan National Forest The 80 routes span the state from eastern Washington to the Olympics and the coast and are on paved and dirt roads that are all traversable by car, and take you to excellent trailheads for further adventure by foot! Rating by distance, road condition, and grade from Flatlanders Welcome to Valium Prescribed makes this guide flexible to your capability. Wild Roads Washington invites you to connect with nature again—all from the comfort of your vehicle.

Author : Seabury Blair Jr.
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570618275
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Roads Washington written by Seabury Blair Jr. and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty of Washington state with these 75 scenic road trips, each of which leads to an easy day hike. This choose-your-own-adventure guidebook is the first of its kind to take take the easy hike offroading--and up forest roads into the lush landscape of Washington State. Most forest roads in Washington climb almost as high as some of the trails, providing vistas almost as good as those reached by foot. Featuring 75 roads throughout the state, the author outlines hikes off of each route, whether you want to start by foot at the bottom or closer to the peak. Some of these roads are paved and designated Forest Highways, while others are rough, single-lane routes where wildlife and scenery outnumber vehicles.

Author : Seabury Blair Jr.
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1570618151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Roads Washington written by Seabury Blair Jr. and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beauty of Washington state with these 75 scenic road trips, each of which leads to an easy day hike. This choose-your-own-adventure guidebook is the first of its kind to take take the easy hike offroading--and up forest roads into the lush landscape of Washington State. Most forest roads in Washington climb almost as high as some of the trails, providing vistas almost as good as those reached by foot. Featuring 75 roads throughout the state, the author outlines hikes off of each route, whether you want to start by foot at the bottom or closer to the peak. Some of these roads are paved and designated Forest Highways, while others are rough, single-lane routes where wildlife and scenery outnumber vehicles.

Author : David Louter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029598984X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Windshield Wilderness written by David Louter and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State’s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places. Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks.

Author : Paul S. Sutter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989904
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driven Wild written by Paul S. Sutter and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs brought these trends to a startling crescendo. The dilemma faced by stewards of the nation's public lands was how to protect the wild qualities of those places while accommodating, and often encouraging, automobile-based tourism. By 1935, the founders of the Wilderness Society had become convinced of the impossibility of doing both. In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders--Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country�s wild places. As Sutter discovered, the founders of the Wilderness Society were "driven wild"--pushed by a rapidly changing country to construct a new preservationist ideal. Sutter demonstrates that the birth of the movement to protect wilderness areas reflected a growing belief among an important group of conservationists that the modern forces of capitalism, industrialism, urbanism, and mass consumer culture were gradually eroding not just the ecology of North America, but crucial American values as well. For them, wilderness stood for something deeply sacred that was in danger of being lost, so that the movement to protect it was about saving not just wild nature, but ourselves as well.

Author : Earl Thollander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780912365565
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back Roads of Washington written by Earl Thollander and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wander off the beaten path with artist Earl Thollander and discover some of the most picturesque areas of the state. In hand-written text and vivid illustrations, Back Roads of Washington guides readers through 6,000 miles of scenic beauty. This regional classic captures the memorable details of back roads that can be enjoyed on the way to a destination, on a Sunday drive, or sitting in a comfortable armchair. -- Amazon.

Author : Archie Satterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566260343
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Roads of Washington written by Archie Satterfield and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll travel over spectacular mountains down to the sea. You can discover the Olympic Rain Forest and take in farmlands and orchards.

Author : Earl Thollander
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780517542705
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back Roads of Washington written by Earl Thollander and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches show the rural beauty of the Washington countryside and are accompanied by maps of local roads and notes on the history and vegetation of the area

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307957659
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Author : Seabury Blair
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1632170094
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creaky Knees Guide Washington, 2nd Edition written by Seabury Blair and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the best easy hiking trails across Washington state with this friendly guide to the best 100 day hikes in the state! This day-hiking guidebook features the best 100 low-impact trails in the state from the Olympic Peninsula and Mount Rainier National Park to Eastern Washington. Written in an informative style that will appeal to anyone, regardless of age, the guide covers hikes in 10 regions throughout the state as well urban hikes and walks. Each trail description includes elevation gains, including a topographical map; clear, up-to-date driving directions; mileage and estimated hiking time; trail conditions; and more. Creaky Knees hiking guides are perfect for aging baby boomers, seniors, those traveling with small children, and anyone else interested more in a stroll than a climb. Also available in the Creaky Knees series: The Creaky Knees Guide Oregon The Creaky Knees Guide Northern California The Creaky Knees Guide Pacific Northwest National Parks and Monuments