Daughter of the Olympic Wilderness: The Life and Times of Pansy Martin Snell

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PAT NEAL: Daughter of the Olympic Wilderness

Read any good books lately? Daughter of the Olympic Wilderness: The Life and Times of Pansy Martin Snell…

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PAT NEAL: Fishing for excuses

Profiling and stereotyping have no place in a Wilderness Gossip Column. In last week’s episode, it was mistakenly…

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PAT NEAL: The great deer hunt

I spent all last summer cursing the day deer were invented for what they did to my garden.

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PAT NEAL: The great mushroom hunt

In last week’s episode, we examined the very real possibility of mushroom hunters getting lost in the woods.

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PAT NEAL: A reoccurring moisture trend

A REAL WOODSMAN doesn’t need a weatherman to know if it is going to rain.

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PAT NEAL: A winter forecast

THE SIGNS OF the season are certain. There is fresh snow on Mount Olympus. The vine maples are…

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PAT NEAL: The fall chore list

THIS MUST BE the most beautiful fall weather we’ve seen in years. But I’m not one to sit…

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LETTER: Biden impeachment

Biden impeachment

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PAT NEAL: A return to the Queets

Back on this day, Sept. 20, 1890, Private Harry Fisher, a member of Lt. Joseph P. O’Neil’s U.S.…

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PAT NEAL: The sting of bee season

By now, I think we’ve all had it up to here with our seasonal visitors and their in-your-face…

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LETTER: Elegant column

Elegant column

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LETTER: Sound of freedom

Sound of freedom

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LETTER: No masks

No masks

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LETTER: Mail delivery

Mail delivery

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PAT NEAL: The autumn harvest

FALL MUST BE my favorite time of year — when the rain and wind wash the dust away…

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PAT NEAL: Back-to-school drugs

BACK TO SCHOOL. I wonder if any if any three words in the English language can shoot such…

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LETTER: Not dead yet

Not dead yet

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PAT NEAL: Toki is free at last

It was another tough week in the news.

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PAT NEAL: Why I did not go to work today

They say there’s a shortage of folks willing to work in these United States. From what I gathered…

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PAT NEAL: Real tourists with real questions

Every tourist season brings a new crop of tourists.