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Nature / trail
The coyotes that walk with you
Night walking in Ferndale: yips at your left, then ahead, then behind. Real coyotes can throw a voice. This one kept the pace.
The woods at Deception Pass
Old growth, a 1935 bridge, CCC rustic, and a park everyone wants to be haunted. The Samish story of the place is not a forest ghost. The internet invented the rest.
The Mount Baker Lodge at Heather Meadows
A hundred-room chalet that lasted four summers. It burned at dawn on August 5, 1931. Nobody died. The meadows kept the meadows.
Monte Cristo
A Cascade mining town the road gave up on. Hikers say they still hear picks. The ruins are what is left of a boom that could not beat the weather.
Chuckanut after dark
Woodstock Farm, a trestle, a tunnel, and a cottage the tours still name when the bay goes black.