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A attractive Mount Baker stroll with parks, pets, art and record, drawn by Seattle Stroll Report

One Foot in Front of the Other

This week’s One particular Foot in Front of the Other stroll attributes special guest Susanna Ryan, creator of Seattle Wander Report and writer of “Secret Seattle,” who created this exceptional 3-mile loop around Mount Baker.

Stringing alongside one another a number of parks with stellar Lake Washington and Mount Rainier sights, and with bits of living Seattle historical past scattered throughout the route, this walk is truly worth an afternoon. Check it out for a style of the Central District and South Seattle as the seasons alter.

South Seattle loop

(Mark Nowlin / The Seattle Times)


Spherical-excursion length: 3.3 miles

Our wander commences at Sam Smith Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Look for the paved route accented by a sequence of rock sculptures paired with philosophical musings from Lao Tze, Plato and some others. “Crooked is the route of eternity,” writes the constantly-cheery Nietzsche,

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Wildlife in the frame: photography sale aims to raise $1m for Africa’s parks | Global development

More than 150 wildlife photographers are taking part in a sale of wildlife prints to raise money for African Parks, a South Africa-based conservation NGO. In 2020, the first Prints for Wildlife sale raised $660,200 (£479,000), with more than 6,500 prints sold within 30 days.

This year, the initiative, founded by two photographers, Pie Aerts from the Netherlands and Austrian Marion Payr, is aiming to raise $1m. The prints will be on sale through the online shop printsforwildlife.org until 11 August.

Alongside some of the most respected wildlife photographers in the world, such as Greg du Toit, Beverly Joubert, Suzi Eszterhas, David Lloyd and Steve Winter, the sale also features emerging talent from developing nations, with the aim of promoting greater diversity among wildlife photographers.

The money raised will support African Parks, which manages 19 parks, spanning 14.7m hectares (36.3m acres), in 11 countries on behalf of governments

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Nationwide Parks Traveler’s Checklist For Mount Rainier Countrywide Park
Go hiking. There are a multitude of day hike options from which to pick out. If you are only there for a working day and have time for just 1 hike, here are a couple of suggestions. If you are browsing the Sunrise place (White River Entrance), hike the Sourdough Ridge trail or the Burroughs Mountain path for astounding sights of the northeastern side of Mount Rainier.

Up at Paradise, any of individuals trails are terrific and most of them are paved for a length. You will get magnificent near-up views of Nisqually Glacier and the south-southeast facet of Mount Rainier along all those trails. Possibly the most popular path up at Paradise is the 5.5-mile Skyline Loop, paved in the vicinity of the commencing and later turning into filth and gravel as it wends its way to the aptly-named Panorama Position, with views of the Tatoosh

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