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PAT NEAL: A historic cruise to Hawaii
HOW ABOUT A cruise to Hawaii? They say cruising isn’t just a vacation, it’s an experience of floating…
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PAT NEAL: May Day for the Shingle Weavers
MAY DAY IS a holiday of ancient origins that has found new meaning in our modern world of…
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PAT NEAL: Fishing without hooks
YOU DON’T HAVE to be crazy to fish in Washington state, but it certainly helps. I should know.
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PAT NEAL: You don’t conquer a mountain
THERE WERE GIANTS in the land. We lost one last week when Jim Whittaker passed away at
age…
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PAT NEAL: Save our campgrounds
THESE ARE THE mornings we’ve waited for all winter. When the Olympic Mountains stand up so tall in…
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating April Fool’s in style
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY must be my favorite holiday. It’s easy to remember the date. We look forward to…
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PAT NEAL: More research is needed
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in cooperation with…
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating the skunk cabbage
THERE IS NOTHING more beautiful than a swamp full of skunk cabbage in the snow. The appearance of…
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PAT NEAL: Green crab confusion
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes, I think if you didn’t read this, no one would, but you…
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PAT NEAL: National Invasive Species Awareness Week
HOW WAS YOUR National Invasive Species Awareness Week? Chances are, with our modern world of the future spinning…
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PAT NEAL: Birdwatching with a chainsaw
BIRDWATCHING IS my life. Most of my best birdwatching has been done with a chainsaw. Birdwatching with a…
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PAT NEAL: A wilderness crime spree
ADMITTING YOU HAVE a fishing problem is the first step in dealing with it. Sometimes, it’s only when…
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PAT NEAL: I’m not complaining about the weather
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. The drumming of rain on the roof announced another damp and dreary…
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PAT NEAL: How not to prepare for the subduction event
Columnist note: This week marks the 326-year anniversary of the Jan., 26, 1700, magnitude-9 megathrust earthquake and associated…
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PAT NEAL: Cabin fever cures
IT’S OFFICIAL. THE cabin fever season started early and hit hard this year.
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PAT NEAL: Life on the stump ranch
THOUGH IT MAY seem like our dark and dreary winter will never end, there are rumors of spring…
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PAT NEAL: The 40-pound steelhead
THE HOLIDAYS ARE over. Only the mess remains. That, and the grim realization that after only a week…
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PAT NEAL: Making and breaking New Year’s resolutions
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with know-it-all newspaper columnists wasting valuable…
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PAT NEAL: The Christmas colonoscopy
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river, but I was not on a river. This was strange since I…