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The Monthly Stack: The Three Graces, Garibaldi
Resting in the shallow tidewaters of the channel that leads from the Pacific into Tillamook Bay, a set…
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Readers’ lenses turn to the coast
Five summers ago, before setting out into the path of totality which extended views of a nationwide solar…
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A land of oysters and blue mussels
Penn Cove is the sort of quiet harbor where, before daylight rises in full, sailboats stand moored and…
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Memories of a winter windstorm
From the living room of a third-floor hotel suite in Cannon Beach, sharp gusts of wind howled against…
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The Monthly Stack: Tillamook Rock, Cannon Beach
Signing off from the station at Tillamook Rock Lighthouse on Sept. 1, 1957, keeper Oswald Allik made one…
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A hike around Leadbetter Point
Under the low October sun, moss-covered thickets at Leadbetter Point State Park glow with the softest of rays,…
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Watching herons on the riverfront
There were five along the Astoria Riverwalk last week. In the early evening hours, silent and stoic, two…
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Share your fall art with Coast Weekend
In early October, morning mist lingers over the tree line of the Coast Range Mountains. Earlier sunset walks…
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The Monthly Stack: Three Arch Rocks, Oceanside
When conservationist and photographer William L. Finley, along with friend and fellow outdoorsman Herman Bohlman, rowed a dory…
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A look at undersea kelp forests
Resembling the tall canopy of an old-growth forest, blades of bull kelp tower in thick groves under Northwest…
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