Washington State Busse Fans

[Blade-Addict]

I was just curious if any of you busse fans were from Washington State and what kind of hiking and camping you guys do around the area. I'm, of course big into knives, but also just exploring this beautiful area over here. I'm not close to the forest but the sagebrush drylands have their perks. We explore all kinds of caves, canyons, and a particular underground missile silo we know of. Imagine this, a football field size area surrounded by barbed wire fence. A few feet in, is a pipe sticking out of the ground with a hole in it. You squeeze through the pipe and enter into a massive missile silo with extensive hallways and a convenient canoe, that's right, I said a canoe in one of the flooded hallways. It's CRAZY canoeing through a missile silo. Well I'm real interested in what you guys have found exploring around these parts. Take care.

 

[Evolute]

I don't exactly live in Washington--I don't have a home base anywhere right now, I'm a wandering photographer--but I go there quite often to visit my best friend/ex, who was there for medical school. (She graduated last week. She's a doctor, now!) We spend as much time outside as we can.

I've been spending time around the Paradise area of Mount Ranier, around the seashore of Olympic National Park, in the Hoh river Valley, little day hikes in the Cascades, and many of the local parks around Lake Washington and around Seattle. I haven't been over to the desertic parts of Eastern Washington in 13 years, though I'd like to go back.

Washington is such a beautiful state that you really can't go wrong looking for a nice hike or camp, unless you go hiking through a clear-cut. The first three areas I mentioned, above, are each among the very best of their kind. Mount Rainier is the largest mountain in the lower 48 states. It has majestic glaciers meeting extremely thick and varied fields of wildflowers, lovely lakes, mountain goats, bears, and marmots. The seashore of Olympic National park is considered by many professional nature photographers to be the most spectacular coastline in the world. It has lush forests meeting the sea in great cliffs, enormous piles of weathered driftwood, jagged sea stacks jutting from the ocean with twisted trees tilting from their edges, multitudes of starfish, crabs, kelp, anemones, shorebirds, and so on. The Hoh is the rainiest spot in the contiguous US, and an amazingly lush temperate rainforest. It has very dense stands of old growth trees, thickly covered with draping mosses in vibrant greens, healthy herds of elk wending through the woods, and babbling brooks everywhere.

I think I just talked myself into another trip....