CONTRIBUTORS Tim Ahern is a recently unretired mountain climber, avid hiker, backcountry skier and kayaker, with a main focus on the Pacific Northwest and East Greenland. His college degrees are in biochemistry, oceanography and Russian literature, and in addition to writing travel articles for various publications, he has published three books on James Joyce. He currently lives in Littleton, Massachusetts. Nick Belcaster is an adventure journalist who cut his teeth for the big three—hiking, climbing and splitboarding—on the jagged wave of rock that is the North Cascades. Residing in Bellingham, WA, he contributes to local and national publications and tries to stay out of trouble in the mountains.
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Volume 13. Issue 3 Both are outdoor and environmental educators who have explored, volunteered, and worked across the country. They write the (almost) weekly Full-Time Campers column for The Dyrt online magazine. The Pacific Northwest has a special place in their hearts. Peter James is on a constant quest for natural beauty all around Northwest Washington. His work shows Mother Nature in her pure form with no signs of human life. He prints his vibrant images on huge sheets of aluminum and displays over 50 of them in his gallery in Fairhaven’s new Orca Building. Learn more at peterjamesphotogallery.com.
Long ago, Kathy and Craig Copeland rearranged their lives to make hiking the white-hot molten core of their shared identity. They built their livelihood on a unique ability to express the wonder, joy, and exhilaration they feel in wild places. They’re now Canada’s most prolific hiking-and-camping guidebook authors. Visit hikingcamping.com to see their titles and peruse their blog.
Sarah Laing is a nutritionist, author and cofounder of S&J Natural Products, which offers CBD-infused products for healthy lifestyles. She is currently writing her second book, The Cannabinoid Diet, which focuses on phytocannabinoidbased nutritional guidelines to activate the body’s endocannabinoid system, restoring balance in the body and promoting overall health.
The poet Roger Gilman lives in Bellingham and can be found around the northwest along Cascade Mountain streams and in Puget Sound salt marshes fly fishing and birding for poems. He is a philosopher of evolutionary ecology and of restoration biology, and a former dean of Fairhaven College at Western Washington University.
Alan Majchrowicz is a mountain wilderness fanatic who has been hiking and photographing in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for over 35 years. His landscape and nature images have been used by The Sierra Club, Apple Computer, National Geographic, Alaska Airlines and many more. He resides with his family in Bellingham. Learn more at alanmajchrowicz.com.
David Hutchison and Shari Galiardi are a traveling freelance writer/photographer couple.
Ted Rosen is a member of the Bellingham Greenways Advisory Committee and has been
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a champion of land conservation since his youth in the industrial wastelands of northern New Jersey. He enjoys writing, day hikes, photography, guitar, and the occasional pale ale. Denise Snyder, her photographer husband, Brett Baunton and dog, Luna live in Bellingham. Check out her art at Social Fabric clothing store and The Lightcatcher Museum gift shop in downtown Bellingham, MONA gift shop in La Conner, and Matzke Gallery on Camano Island. She also creates commercial commissions.
COVER PHOTO by John D’Onofrio
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