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The Olympic Mountain Snowpack: Winter 2015-16

After a record low snowpack during the winter of 2014-15, the Olympic Mountains have once again returned to their snowy splendor. The winter of 2015-16 is on record as being a normal year, but compared to the barren peaks of last year, normal seems quite impressive. Across the mountain tops and even down in the …

Video: Big Four Ice Caves Collapse, Almost Smashing Tourists

UPDATED July 6th at 7:20PM We are getting reports that the caves have yet again collapsed today, this time with injuries reported. Snohomish County crews are on their way up and we will keep you updated on the story ASAP.  Again, there has been another collapse of the Big Four Ice Caves in the North …

Dear William Shatner, Keep Your Hands off Our Water.

William Shatner announced on Friday that he is starting a Kickstarter Campaign to raise $30 billion for a water pipeline that would stretch from Seattle to Lake Mead in Nevada, which would provide water to Arizona, Nevada and California. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I recall hearing about this in the 1980s, and my parents reassure …

By the Numbers: The Lack of Snowpack in the West

Anyone living out west knows that this year has been usually warm, easily seen by glancing at any of our normally snowcapped peaks. While we know that this year’s El Nino has been tough, what is most shocking is that it is one of the worst snowfall years in history. The snowpack for the 6 …

The Changing Climate Around America’s Rainforest

It is March 27th, 2015. After two straight days in the 60s with mostly sun, the world as I know it is changing before my very eyes. The Olympic Peninsula has been declared by Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington State,  to be in a drought.