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SCENIC HIKES PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER AND REAP THE REWARDS OF WORLD-CLASS VISTAS
written by Amy Bowden
FROM THE RUGGED coastline to alpine meadows and primordial temperate rainforests, Washington claims some of the world’s most wild and wonderful scenery. With three national parks, dozens of world-class state parks and more recreation areas dotting the upper left corner of the Pacific Northwest, Mother Nature beckons beyond any backdoor. Certain spectacular hikes, however, rise to the top of a most scenic list. Here then, are seven of Washington’s most precious natural jewels, yours for the taking, from easy to difficult.
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Wildflowers line the trail in the upper Enchantment basin in early July. (photo: Gemina Garland-Lewis)
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Aouinet Legraa: Nine months after a fireball was seen above western Algeria in July 2013, hunters stumbled upon fresh fusion-crusted stones, a relatively common type of meteorite called eucrites. Many eucrites are breccias, composed of angular, broken fragments, but Aouinet Legraa is a superbly fresh example of an unbrecciated eucrite that crystallized from molten magma.
SLICES OF STARDOM photography by Neil H. Buckland WE WOULDN’T BE the first to say that the Northwest is out of this world. Now you can see just how true that is in a new exhibit featuring large-scale fine art prints of micro photographs taken from the interior of lava rocks from Oregon and other planets in our solar system. “Cosmic Microscapes,” a collaboration between Seattle photographer Neil H. Buckland and University of Washington professor and meteorite scientist Tony Irving, marries art and science, illuminating the dazzling aesthetics of meteorites. Small pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids were sliced paper-thin and photographed at staggeringly high resolution to produce prints of unprecedented scale. The images were captured from glass microscope slides that contain rock samples sliced and polished to a thickness of just 30 microns, about a third of the width of human hair. To the naked eye, such thin sections can appear colorless, nearly transparent, but special lighting reveals colors and style not unlike those of a Jackson Pollack painting. As an art photographer, Buckland was not satisfied with the image quality produced by a standard scientific microscope and digital sensor. He spent a year building a new system from the ground up with a professional camera at its core and the ability to stitch hundreds of images together for enormously detailed, large-scale fine art prints. They are the subject of a new exhibit, “Cosmic Microscapes: Seeing Into Rocks from Oregon & Space,” at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, through July 18. JUNE | JULY 2021 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE 65