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Where to hike this weekend: Lookout Mountain
Do you live in the Portland area? Have you been meaning to get out hiking, but making excuses? Well, delay no longer, because Cascadia Magazine’s hiking expert has the perfect trail for you: Lookout Mountain in the Badger Creek Wilderness. It’s an easy trail that 2.5 miles roundtrip, and it takes you through meadows full of gorgeous wildflowers. At the summit, which was a former forest lookout (hence the name) the views are astonishing: the panorama includes the Badger Creek Wilderness and Badger Lake, distant views of Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, and a front-row seat to contemplate the glaciers of Mount Hood.
You have no excuses. Get outside! Read the full article with detailed trail route descriptions online at Cascadia Magazine.
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DONATE NOWCascadia Magazine original: saving lives with safe injection
If you haven’t already read Kelsey Hamlin’s detailed feature on Seattle’s efforts to create a supervised consumption site to deal with the region’s opioid epidemic, set aside some time to read it this weekend. It’s accompanied by a fantastic photo essay of Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society by Jackie Dives, and an excerpt from Travis Lupick’s book Fighting for Space, about the creation of Vanvcouver’s first safe injection site fifteen years ago.
Victoria opens its first supervised consumption site
CBC reports that Island Health has opened a new safe injection site in Victoria, British Columbia to deal with a surging drug overdose crisis. Meanwhile, Pierce county Washington (which includes Tacoma) voted to ban safe injection in unincorporated parts of the county. The Seattle Times reports on a disturbing side effect of the opioid addiction epidemic: more and more children of those with addiction are ending up in foster care.
Vancouver transit sets new record; candidate hates bike lanes
Daily Hive reports that usage of Vancouver’s transit system last month hit an all time high, with boardings up over 9 percent. Meanwhile, the Georgia Straight reports that conservative Vancouver mayoral candidate Wai Young hates bike lanes and insists that existing lanes must be removed before new ones are added.
What’s causing Salem’s toxic water?
Ever since Salem issued warnings not to drink tap water because of toxic cyanobacteria in Detroit Lake, the city’s water source, many people are asking what causes these algae blooms. Salem Weekly takes a thorough look at the causes, from logging to agricultural runoff to climate change.
The graveyard of many a ship: The Columbia Bar
OPB has a cool story on the history of the Columbia Bar–the dangerous spot where the Columbia River hits the Pacific, where 2,000 ships have sunk and hundred of lives have been lost. “The river is the river and the ocean is the ocean. We’ve made it safer, we’ve made it more predictable, but it’s never tamed.”
Why did a mother drop her children off a Portland bridge?
Willamette Week has an excerpt from Nancy Rommelmann’s book, To The Bridge, an investigation into the tragic mystery of why a Portland woman dropped her two children from a bridge over the Willamette river in 2009. It’s a riveting and terrible story, but one that’s told in a empathetic and humane way.
Mapping Seattle’s liminal, spooky places
Over at Seattle Review of Books, there’s a great interview with Garrett Kelly, creator of the website Liminal Seattle, a crowd-sourced map of all sorts of weird, spooky, and wonderful incidents and places across Seattle. One point of interest: the “Hellmouth” in South Lake Union near the headquarters of a large online retail corporation. Take a trip through bizarro Seattle by visiting Liminal Seattle’s web site.
That’s all today’s news & and highfalutin culture from across the Cascadia bioregion. Have a great weekend. –Andrew Engelson
Photo credit: Coast guard cutter courtesy of USCG