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PAT NEAL: The Peninsula’s hidden trails
OFTEN WHILE GLIDING along the paved roads of the Olympic Peninsula you wonder at the difficulty of travel…
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PAT NEAL: Thank you, Rose
THE NEW YEAR has come and with it a traditional impulse to resolve to do better than we…
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PAT NEAL: A special time of year
IT’S A SPECIAL time of year when friends and relations get together to celebrate the joy of the…
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PAT NEAL: Thanksgiving: Knowing when you got it good
THERE’S A LOT of talk these days about holiday stress.
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PAT NEAL: Autumn harvest frustrations
AUTUMN IS A time of gathering the wild abundance that grows all around us.
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PAT NEAL: Most wonderful time of the year
OPENING DAY OF deer season must be my favorite day of the year.
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PAT NEAL: The true cost of salmon fishing
ALONG ABOUT THIS time of year we get a run of salmon up the rivers.
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PAT NEAL: The lost and the not yet lost
THERE ARE ONLY two types of mushroom pickers. Those that have gotten lost in the woods and those…
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PAT NEAL: Blue-tarp camping misery
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like the sound of rain on the roof, unless you have a leaky roof.