Opinion
PAT NEAL: Remembering a guide’s friend
Like the good Book said, “There were giants in the land.” We lost one last week.
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PAT NEAL: A short history of winter
As a kid, I remember the old-timers saying, “We don’t have winters like that anymore.” Referring to sometime…
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PAT NEAL: Peninsula power problems
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Then the power went out and it got darker. The storm…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: 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: ‘Tis the season of holiday stress
It’s been another tough week in the news. The holiday stress is running at a fever pitch.
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PAT NEAL: Yes, Virginia, there is a steelhead
I am 8 years old. My family and I have been fishing for steelhead all year and haven’t…
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PAT NEAL: My Christmas wish list
Call it the magic of the season or the true Christmas spirit. It’s time once again for my…
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PAT NEAL: Endangered species roulette
In last week’s episode, we broke the story about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declaring war on…
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PAT NEAL: The barred owl menace
And so, another hunting season passes astern. I hope you did better than I did.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: How to have a happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving. The word conjures images of black-robed pilgrims in white starched collars sitting down to dinner with their…
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PAT NEAL: She died with her boots on
In last week’s episode, we were celebrating the life of the Hoh Tribal woman Tsi-hos-tub. Called Pansy Martin…
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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.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A reoccurring moisture trend
A REAL WOODSMAN doesn’t need a weatherman to know if it is going to rain.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A winter forecast
THE SIGNS OF the season are certain. There is fresh snow on Mount Olympus. The vine maples are…
Opinion
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…
Opinion
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.…