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January 25, 2008

Sometimes a good ski movie can console you during an off year, but we're already having a record-breaking snow season (ok, it's no 1998, but still, the quality and volume of the snow we've been getting this year is reminiscent of our days growing up in Utah for what that's worth). So maybe you don't need a powder porn flick to fuel your stoke, but we're thinking that Steep (showing in a limited run at......

Continue Reading "Get Out: Steep at the Varsity Theater"

May 15, 2006

Eric Blehm’s third book, The Last Season, reconstructs the story of Randy Morgenson, a National Park Service backcountry ranger in California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains who heads out for a routine 3-day patrol in the summer of 1996, never to be seen again. Exploring numerous theories surrounding the circumstances of Morgenson's disappearance--suicide, accidental death, even starting over with a new anonymous life--Blehm retraces the ranger's steps, weaving together a story that celebrates the juxtaposition of......

Continue Reading "Seattlest Interview: Eric Blehm"

April 27, 2006

Just two years ago, veteran Mt. Rainier ranger and climber Charlie Borgh helped rescue Scott Richards, who spent two days on the mountain trying to save his friend Doug Cooley (tragically, Cooley died just a few hours after being rescued). Today, Borgh was discovered after a fall on Mt. Deltaform near Lake Louise--his climbing partner Gabe Coler survived, and by all accounts miraculously. Deltaform is a notorious peak, one which has claimed 5 lives in......

Continue Reading "Please Stop Dying"

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