SALMON FISHING -- Better late than never – the 2011 sockeye salmon run pouring over Bonneville Dam and heading up the Columbia River likely be the fourth largest since records were started in 1980. Most of the sockeye are headed for the Wenatchee and Okanagan…
WILDLIFE WATCHING-- One of the young eagles monitored on a popular Seattle-area EagleCam has died, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reports. The fledgling eagles were just learning how to fly when one was found dead near the nest tree Tuesday. There were no visible…
SKIING -- Washington's Crystal Mountain ski resort near Mount Rainier says its ski season will end Saturday, nearly nine months after it opened in November. The resort (see map) says the longest season in its 48-year history was made possible by record-breaking snowfall and the…
NATIONAL PARKS -- On Wednesday, all 50 miles of the scenic Going-to-the-Sun Road opened to the public and the crowds turned out in droves, heralding the official start to summer in this northern region. The Sun Road's opening was highly anticipated, according to a story…
SALMON FISHING -- Western Washington anglers are starting to get pink fever for the big run of humpies that pours into coastal waters on odd-numbered years. Returns are expected to be huge, and the first short at the front end of the runs starts Saturday…
HIKING -- Beargrass is to wildflowers what antlers are to bone. They grow long stalks incredibly fast and explode into a white plume of blooms. Now showing at Mount Spokane State Park and other IInland Northwest mountains near you.
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- An Arizona couple recently witnessed a wildlife spectacle outside their home hear Gold Canyon as a mountain lion launched an attack on a bobcat. In a desperate escape along the foothills of the Superstition Mountains, the bobcat sprinted up a very tall…
MOUNTAINEERING -- Even experienced mountaineers have been stopped in their tracks occasionally by the rare sight of a triangular shadow darkening the landscape in the distance away from a major peak. The triangle shadow phenomena is fairly commonly seen from the tops of large mountains…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.
