“I last visited Lake Ozette, in the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula, as a young teenager when my family hiked from Cape Alava to Rialto Beach—a several day back pack over headlands at high tide and across the sand and rocks and drift logs at low tide. Earlier, when I was a young child (young enough to say I was carsick on the twisting bumpy gravel road so I could move to the front seat between my parents…” read more
Giving Way: Lake Ozette
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Gretchen Staebler
I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. View all posts by Gretchen Staebler
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