Where is the most stunning alpine area in the Pacific Northwest to visit in late summer and early fall? Is it the Enchantments, Mount Hood's Paradise Park, Ingalls Lake, Peggy's Pond or Jefferson Park ...

Backpacking in the high country of the Cascades is exhilarating for many reasons. Among them is that it’s only accessible for a few months of the year. That window is open now. And few places in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 24—As of Monday morning at 11:30 a.m., all evacuation notices set in place due to the Goat Rocks Fire in Packwood area ...

GOAT ROCKS WILDERNESS, Wash. -- After two days of walking, Andy Wunder and Sivan Goobich are miles away from the nearest road or cell phone signal. They’ve been getting their drinking water from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 19—Though it may take a fire-season-ending amount of rain to completely put out the Goat Rocks Fire 1.5 miles northeast of ...

They told us to watch for goats and avoid the crowds. At the trailhead to Snowgrass Flats in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, two women from the Seattle area were peeling off their boots after a multiday ...

The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire roughly 7 miles northeast of Packwood has grown to 80 acres. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire grew to 80 acres late last week, and ...

RANDLE, Wash. — Both directions of US 12 between Packwood and the White Pass Summit will remain closed through the weekend due to the Goat Rocks Fire. The wildfire is located two miles northeast of ...

Hankering to see a mountain goat? Now you can, and not just at the . They live right here in the mountains of the Northwest, and that hasn't always been the case. Lewis and Clark found them here in ...

The Goat Rocks Fire burning west of Yakima near U.S. Highway 12 in Gifford Pinchot National Forest was handed over to a Type 3 incident command team Saturday night. Evacuation notices, road closures ...