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2022 Shelton Highclimber Football Wrap Up

It was a great season for the Shelton Highclimber football team. Head coach Mark Smith, QB coach Andy Conklin, Booster Club Board member Rod Olsen and Jeff Slakey talk about this season that saw the Climbers make it to the playoffs for the first time in about 10 years.

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Counting On Chum

Salmon Center Executive Director Mendy Harlow and Salmon & Steelhead Biologist Clayton David show Jeff Slakey how the volunteers work 24 hours a day for two months to count all the fish that come through the trap.

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Nature Provides In Brinnon

Have folks coming in from out of town? Just moved here and interested in learning what NOT to eat? We took the Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants, Lichen and Fungi of the PNW Tour with Hood Canal Adventures' Herpetologist and Professional Forager, Jerry Novak, and it was great.

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Halloween Meets Gasoline at The Ridge Motorsports Park

Halloween Meets Gasoline this October during the “Smells Like AMC Spirit 2022” Event at The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington. There’s a group of SHS Graduates whose teamed up with their old CTE instructor Mike Beyer to take a 1992 Toyota Paseo to the limits during this exciting race based off the 24-Hour LeMans Race in Europe.

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Mason County’s Hidden Gem | Skyline Drive-In

Just south of Shelton, traffic slows as motorists approach Taylor Town. Here you will find one of Mason County’s Hidden Gems – The Skyline Drive-In, one of only five remaining drive-in movie theaters in Washington State; one of less than 300 left nationwide in America.

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Hike with the marmots of Marmot Pass

The trail to Marmot Pass traverses stately primeval forest and crests a high mountain pass providing views from Puget Sound to the Olympic Mountain’s craggiest and most aspiring peaks. And the pass is home to Olympic marmots, one of nature’s most whimsical and adorable critters.

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Duckabush River Trail

Fed by glaciers, snowfields, and a myriad of springs and alpine lakes; this major Olympic Peninsula river provides excellent wildlife habitat and makes for some stunning scenery.

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A convocation of eagles

Like a murder of crows or a gaggle of geese, a convocation is the unexpected collective noun for a group of eagles.

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Satsop Lakes via Church Creek

Your climbing toil will be redeemed upon reaching the Satsop Lakes in a tranquil verdant basin that teems with wildlife.

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On the look out for squatch

The deep, extensive forests of the Olympic Peninsula hide secrets. Writer, Stella Wenstob, examines some of the lore surrounding the sasquatch and big foot sightings in the area.

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Big Loop Trail

Amble along this circuitous route within the shadows of Mount Ellinor and see the forces of water all around you. Churning Big Creek and its tributaries will charm you with their frothy displays.

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