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Northwest travel Magazine January/February 2007
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Northwest Travel Cover January/February 2007

Board Silly - The fastest growing sport in the U.S., snowboarding has won the hearts of winter sports enthusiasts. — Steve Tannen

Cross-Country on Skinny Skis - Some rustic, some upscale, Northwest resorts dish up some of the nation’s best cross-country skiing. — Becky Lomax

Basking in the Rain Shadow - The Olympic Peninsula, famous for its temperate rain forest, also offers travelers three surprisingly sunny towns full of history and culture. — Roddy Scheer

Cruising Prince William Sound - A cruise on the Spirit of Columbia brings Alaska’s amazing glaciers into focus.

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Editors notes

Editors Notes - By Rosemary Camozzi, Editor

Tasteful Travel

Baristas Without Borders - A hard-to-find coffee stand inspires a personal odyssey—and a guidebook for coffee hounds traveling I–5. The coffee stands are amazing: entrepreneurial, individual, funky, and like our rivers and weather, uniquely Pacific Northwest.

Tasteful Travel

Chinook Salmon - Chinook Salmon are native to the Pacific Ocean and range from Alaska to California. They are a prize sport fish and considered quite tasty. This aritcle covers where to spot them and how to identify the salmon.

Worth A Stop

Roche Harbor, Washington - The fourth annual Salmon Classic Invitational is a three-day sport fishing extravaganza that attracts anglers from all over the Northwest and Canada.

Brownsville, Oregon - The Living Rock Studios, a family-run museum of rocks, wood, and history, is just before the charming town of Brownsville in a strage castle-like stome building.

Murray, Idaho - Prospecting for History - You can still find gold nuggets around this small Idaho town and lots of interesting stories. Some of the stories are old, some are new, and they may or may not be true

Toppenish, Washington - Getting the Big Picture - Many aspects of the Old West are depicted on 70 murals that grace the walls and facades of buildings in Toppenish. Scenes from bygone rodeos, railroading, farming, and aviation turn a casual stroll about town into an illustrated adventure.

Washington's 49° Resort - When the snow gods dump their annual 301 inches on Washington's 49° North Mountain Resort, they also sprinkle whimsy. For this day-use only ski resort is no ordinary ski hill: It permeates with personality to paste a smile on your face.

Regional Travel Guide

Have an Ice Day - Fairbanks, Alaska - More than 100 ice sculptors from around the world slide into Fairbanks for the World Ice Art Championships as part of the Fairbanks Winter Carnival.

A Very Sweet Event - Nanaimo, B.C. - Vancouver Island's annual Maple Sugar Festival du Sucre d'Erable offers culinary delights and Pure Maple Toffee on Snow!

Go Wild at Winterfest - Bozeman, Montana - The Wild West WinterFest begs for cowboy boots and Stetson hats as festival-goers revel in this western extravaganza February 15 through 17 at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds.

Get hooked on Sea Stories - Astoria, Oregon - Saucy stories, tawdry tales, and ribald rhymes highlight the annual Fisher Poets Gathering in this former canning capital of the world.

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EDITORS NOTES

Whew! The holidays are finally over. We can stop worrying about what Uncle Morris might like for Christmas and how we’re going to find time for all the parties we were invited to and whether this year we are finally going to be able to thwart that extra five pounds that tries to settle in every December. As the long, cold nights keep us close to the fire, dreaming of warm weather, it’s time to put away the gift catalogs, pull out our issues of Northwest Travel, and contemplate the trips we’d like to take in 2007.

Rosemary at Crater Lake

Of course, tastes really vary when it comes to vacations. Some of us like to take to the hills with a tent, sleeping bags, and a cooler in the trunk. We’ll head to a natural area, find a campground, set up the tent after dark, and cook a late dinner over the campfire. The only nightlife we’re looking for is the howl of a coyote or the silent glide of an owl overhead, hunting in stealth mode.

 

Others like to travel in more luxurious style. We plan our trips down to the minute and make reservations at a high-end hotel with a spa where we can enjoy purifying herbal body wraps. Our idea of nightlife includes gourmet restaurants, an evening at the symphony, or maybe late-night revelry at a dance club.

Luckily for us, the Northwest offers both luxury and ruggedness, often in the same trip. You can sample the nightlife in Portland or Seattle and then climb a 12,000 foot mountain the next day, or drive through the lush farmland of the Willamette Valley and a few hours later find yourself in arid ranchland dotted with sagebrush.

And luckily for me, I’m the new editor of Northwest Travel, so I get to further explore this region that I’ve called home for many years. In this issue, Steve Tannen does a roundup of great snowboarding spots all over the Northwest, Becky Lomax takes us to breathtaking cross-country ski areas, and Roddy Sheer offers respite from the rain in the “rain shadow” towns of the Olympic Peninsula. And for those of us who travel up and down I–5 for work or pleasure, Linda Sawyer shares how she came to write a book listing 101 coffee kiosks within a mile of the freeway.

Travel allows us to meet people we otherwise wouldn’t have met, partake in cultures different from our own, and in some cases, renew our connection to nature. As you travel this year, we hope you will share with us some of your experiences and also let us know what you think about our coverage. In leaving behind routine and experiencing new places and people, we can all gain new insight into the world we share.

—Rosemary Camozzi
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