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by Leslee Jaquette   If you think you’ve got a lot of moss, big trees and giant slugs in Clark County, imagine how pioneers living near Lake Quinault on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula must have suffered in the 1880s, trying to settle in one of the soggiest places in the world. Lush, green and pretty much […]

By Leslee Jaquette Hiking up the Grand Canyon over President’s Weekend, the weather changed so dramatically so many times that my sons and I felt like we were part of a time-lapse movie. The rain, hail, snow, sun, fog, wind and calm took turns racing past during the six hours it took us to hike […]