What a summer!

As I sit out on my front porch with a morning coffee, I feel that chill in the air. The fog is starting to roll in and hide the Olympics and Capital Forest. It has been quite a summer and I am so happy that I’ve been able to show you just a sliver of the great things in our area. Taking my mom on those waterfall hikes to show not just her, but you too that they are beautiful and accessible, has been a great treat. Also looking back since June it’s been great sharing adventures and stories; you wouldn’t believe the number of long-timers who’ve come up to me and talked about not knowing about some of the things we’ve done.

Finally riding in the tour de mason is something I’ve been wanting to do since getting into the community and the Karen Hilburn cancer fund is such a great organization to help. Taking a tour of The Salmon Center with Mendy Harlow and learning about all the glamping opportunities in hood canal were both eye-openers and most recently learning the history of the Harstine Island community hall with Sandy Murphy was fascinating.

This fall I don’t plan on slowing down, in fact I have plans to revisit some of the spots from the summer to see just how things change as well as start heading indoors and taking some tours of our great museums around the fjord. If you have any ideas for me, please reach out, you can email jeff@nwevent.org, or you can send me a message on facebook. We also just put out a major hike guide with 25 hikes of varying difficulty you can get a copy around the area or find it online too.

All that being said….there are some events this week

Squidstock 2022 reunion is happening Thursday through the weekend at Bechtolt ranch.

There’s the 45th Annual Wooden Boat Festival at the Northwest Maritime Center & Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend

And at Boston Harbor there's a Pier Peer event on Saturday

Have a great week. The fall edition of Tracing The Fjord will be out soon with a bunch of events through November and you can always go online to tracingthefjord.com.