An easy to moderate 5-mile day hike or scramble with 1,200 feet of elevation gain. The trail winds through second growth forest with plenty of rock faces and boulders. Consider including the Boulder Garden Loop Trail. Hikers are treated to a grand view of the Upper Snoqualmie Valley and North Bend. This trailhead also provides access to Meditation Rock, a good high-angle rescue training area.

Hike a combination of trails to the treeless summit on West Hansen Ridge before continuing to Little St. Helens, enjoying expansive views along the way. Depending on the chosen path, you can hike 8-10 miles with 1,900-2,200 feet of elevation gain.

This route ascends a series of steps up the south face with several sections of rock and steep snow/ice. Grade II, several pitches of low 5 class rock, ice/snow up to 45°. This is a good early season approach to Little Tahoma's South Face and East Shoulder routes when the road to Summerland is closed.

Sail with Skipper Bill Woods on his Merit 25 "Little White Rabbit" out of Des Moines Marina, Slip D-24.

This is a winter scramble on Happy Lake Ridge in the northern Olympic mountains near Lake Crescent. It's 12 miles round trip and 4,700 feet of elevation gain.

Llandover Woods is a moderate sized greenspace in North Seattle (3rd NW and 145th Street) with quiet forested hilly loop walking trails.

A moderate 4 mile snowshoe trip with 1,400 feet of elevation gain along the Pacific Crest Trail heading south from Snoqualmie Pass.

A Washington city on the coast that offers beach hikes, exploring nature, and photography opportunities during special events.

A community park on the Olympic Peninsula with access to Long Lake. It's great for sea kayaking training.

An urban adventure and stairway walk that start at Camp Long and heads to Longfellow Creek before descending Pigeon Point to the West Seattle Bridge Trail and loops back via many stairways and urban paths.

A meeting place stewardship activities conducted near Longmire in Mount Rainier Nation Park.

Two strenuous hikes of nearly ten round trip and just over 4,500 feet of elevation gain in the North Cascades. The trail to the aptly-named Lookout Mountain switchbacks steeply up through forests and meadows to a lookout with panoramic views. In early season Lookout Mountain is a snow scramble. Monogram Lake is set in a deep cirque and surrounded by many glaciated peaks, the lake provides a challenging destination worthy of the effort needed to get there.

Snowshoe to viewpoint overlooking the Twisp and Methow River valleys and the Sawtooth Range. It's 8 miles round trip with 3,100 feet of elevation gain.

A newly created trail system southeast of Bellingham with 8 miles of hiking and biking trails and 8 miles of gated forest roads that can be used for a variety out-and-back and loop hikes.

A moderate hike across the blast zone to the mouth of Mount St. Helen's crater to the view of a glacier-born waterfall crashing into a tight, barren chasm.

A strenuous backpack that circumnavigates Mount St. Helens.

Hike or mountain bike into the vast evergreen forest of this 1,463-acre upland nature preserve. A day's exploration of this unique wilderness park can include discovering many species of plant and animal life

An 8-mile round trip hike with 2,100 feet of elevation gain to two lakes on Manastash Ridge. Depending on the season, enjoy flowers, berries and larches.

A two-pitch aid climb and airy Tyrolean traverse back to the rim, thousands of feet above the Yosemite Valley floor.

An out-and-back hikes to Round Lake or Byrne Lake along Lost Creek Ridge in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. The trail switchbacks up steeply to Bingley Gap, follows the ridge and then reaches a junction with a short hike to Round Lake and longer hike to Camp Lake and Lake Byrne.