Backpack 59 miles on a loop crossing Easy and Park Creek Passes, and exploring North Fork Bridge Creek. Harvey Manning described Easy Pass views as “dramatic”, Park Creek Pass and its surroundings as “one of the scenic climaxes of the North Cascades National Park,” and North Fork Bridge Creek Trail as leading to a “magnificent . . . huge cirque . . . beneath the ice-hung precipices of 9160-foot Goode Mountain, 8515-foot Storm King Peak, and 9,067-foot Mount Logan.”

Enjoy possible sightings of seals, birds, and other marine wildlife depending on the tide and pilings.

Ebey's Landing is an easy, 5.6 mile day hike loop with just 260 ft in elevation gain. The trail starts at the edge of Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound, going along the top of a bluff above Peregos Lake.

More than 25 miles of groomed skate and classic cross-country skiing 20 minutes outside of Chelan and Manson, plus additional "backcountry" trails for skiing and snowshoeing. Groomed trails follow the ridges of the terrain, creating a great skiing experience for all ability levels.

Scramble one, two or all three of the prominent bumps on the northwest side of Mount Rainier overlooking the glorious Spray Park.

An indoor climbing gym for bouldering only. (No rope routes available.)

A climbing gym in Bellevue's Crossroads Mall, with facilities for indoor bouldering and top rope climbing.

A climbing gym in Seattle near the Ballard Locks with facilities for indoor top rope climbing, lead climbing, and bouldering.

An indoor climbing gym in Tacoma, offering top-rope climbing, lead climbing, and bouldering.

Part of Audubon's list of Important Bird Areas, this is a great place for viewing wintering and migratory birds. This 3-mle spit in Port Angeles can be part of a birding trip by car along the northern Olympic Coast.

One of the few urban saltwater estuaries remaining in the Puget Sound area. It's 22.5 acres and hosts up to 90 species of birds throughout the year.

Walk two miles from Four Corners in Edmonds to downtown Edmonds though Pine Ridge Park and Yost Park.

A very beautiful, very strenuous, and comprehensive tour of the upper Enchantments for very experienced scramblers with a high level of conditioning. The 8,000 foot elevation gain of this trip sees it all via the seldom visited Toketie Lake, Toketie Pass, Pogo Col, upper Enchantment Lakes, Aasgard Pass, and Lake Colchuck.

A National Forest campground at mile eight on Icicle Creek Road just outside of Leavenworth. It's a great base camp for hiking and climbing in the Leavenworth area.

A strenuous hike or backpack of up to 16 miles and 4,600 feet of elevation gain in The Enchantments area of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The trail follows Eightmile Creek steeply to Lake Caroline after Little Eightmile Lake. Continue past Lake Caroline to Little Lake Caroline and then Windy Pass to extend your trip. From Eightmile Lake scramble Eightmile Mountain, one of the higher peaks in the Stuart Range.

A community center in Seattle with rental space that can be reserved for meetings and events.

Translated as "The Little Corral," this is one of the largest big wall sport climbing destinations in the world. It boasts over 650 sport climbing routes with more than 140 of them being multipitch. Situated on the edge of the Chihuahua Desert in northern Mexico near Hidalgo in Nuevo León, the area enjoys prime climbing weather from November through February.

Sea kayak in an inlet in the southern part of Puget Sound near Olympia and enjoy exploring tidal estuaries with productive shellfish populations at the southernmost tip.

A truly inspiring glacier climb with a gnarly "kinda wide" log crossing, a strenuous approach through talus and boulders to camp with 4,000 ft of elevation gain, and ending with an exhilarating knife-edge snow ridge leading to the true summit. Views into the North Cascades are tremendous. Times: 5-6 hr trailhead to camp, 3-5 hr camp to summit.

Eldorado Peak via the Northeast Face is a Grade III snow or ice climb.