northwest snow

Hurricane Ridge Living Up To Its Name: Best of the Northwest Photo of the Week

Hurricane Ridge, located in Washington’s Olympic Mountains has surely been living up to its name with massive snow drifts in recent weeks – time to get out and play in the snow? This magical winter wonderland scene was created by blasts of a number of coastal storms that included heavy snow… Read More

Listen Carefully and You Can Hear the Silence: The Snow-Covered Washington Cascades

“Listen carefully,” they say, “and you can hear the silence of the snow.” Nothing feels more calming than being surrounded by the booming sound of silence in a snow-covered landscape, which is why we’ve chosen this photo, shot after some 100 inches of the white powder fell around Stevens Pass… Read More

Ready to Hit the Slopes? Early Snow A Taste of What’s To Come in the Northwest

It may seem like autumn just started, but winter has already been taking hold in the Northwest and the shot @erikhenne captured near Snoqualmie Pass sums it up just before, with one lone gold-hued tree holding out among the snow covered pines. There was snow in the lowlands too, early… Read More