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Easy week in eastern Washington, Part 1: The roads less traveled
My father, Walt Ebel (who blogs here under the name ProudEbel), and I began our second annual trip to the Colville Indian Reservation on a Monday in early June. Dad’s been doing this for decades; he visits his best friend, Lyn, and they spend a week on Twin Lakes at Hartman’s Log Cabin Resort near … Continue reading
Categories: Central Washington, Eastern Washington, Family, Fishing, Recreation, State Parks
Tags: Almira, Cascades, Cedonia, Cheney, Chester A. Arthur, Cle Elum, Cle Elum River, Columbia River, Colville, Colville Indian Agency, Colville Indian Reservation, Coulee, Coulee City, Creston, Davenport, Dennis Patchin, Dry Falls, Dry Falls Dam, Dry Falls Heritage Area, Dry Falls Interpretive Center, Ellensburg, Ephrata, Fairchild Air Force Base, Fort Spokane, Fruitland, George, Gifford, Hartline, Hartman's Log Cabin Resort, Highway 167, Highway 17, Highway 18, Highway 2, Highway 25, Highway 28, Highway 283, Highway 395, Highway 512, Hunters, Inchelium, Interstate 5, Interstate 90, KXLY, Lacey, Lake Smokiam, Lakewood, Lyn Hartman, Mount Si, Mt. Rainier, National Park Service, Native American, Niagara Falls, North Bend, Orin Rice Road, Puyallup, Quincy, Reardan, Rice, Rick Lukens, Ryegrass, Seattle, Soap Lake, Spanish-American War, Spokane, Spokane Falls, Spokane Indian Reservation, Spokane River, Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park, Twin Lakes, Walt Ebel, Washington Territory, Wilbur, Yakima, Yakima River
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What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot
As I tweeted last week, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources’ Committee on Geographic Names is meeting to consider changing the names of a number of Washington State locations, the most prominent being Soap Lake in Grant County. Someone had the bright idea of renaming it “Lake Smokiam” despite the local community having spent … Continue reading
Categories: Central Washington, History, Legislature, Puget Sound, Western Washington
Tags: Arlington, Blue Mountain, Bryant Hill, Bryant Lumber and Shingle Company, Cable Street, Cascades, Charles Wilkes, Chief Tseul-ted, Clark County, Committee on Geographic Names, Crawdad Creek, Dahlberg Mountain, DuPont, Ebey Estuary, Ebey Slough, Echo Lake, Everett, Google, Granite Falls, Grant County, Homstad Road, Isaac Ebey, Jefferson County, Jordan, Jordan Ridge, Jordan Road, Lake Louise Road, Lake Smokiam, Louisiana, Marysville, Marysville Sewage Lagoon, Mill Pond, Mount Washington, Olympics, Palouse, Possession Sound, Puget Sound, Reflection Creek, Rufus Creek, Skagit County, Snohomish County, Soap Lake, Squamish Harbor, Stimpson Reserve, Stimson Hill, Stimson Lumber Company, Sultan, Sultan Ridge, Suquamish Harbor, Suquamish Tribe, Washington, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington Territory, Wayback Brook, Whatcom County, Whidbey Island
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