The U.S. Forest Service specialists at Mount St. Helens are joining forces with seven community organizations for a summer of volunteer trail repair work.

This year’s Women in the Outdoors program at Fort Lewis will be July 25.

Mount Rainier National Park will receive more than $72,600 from Washington’s National Park Fund. The money will be used for restoration of the Paradise meadows, for volunteer outreach and for the programs Camping Adventure with My Parents and Connecting Kids to Parks. The money is part of $200,000 the fund is giving to the state’s three national parks.

The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to vote on a new policy addressing conservation and recovery of wild salmon and steelhead populations.

If you think you’re talented at building sand castles, then be in Long Beach for the 25th annual SandSations July 17-18.

An estimated 5.1 million pink salmon will soon return to the Puget Sound area. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to catch some. Western Washington anglers are on the verge of a salmon-soaked summer.

Three winters ago, the family and I were headed to Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park for a little sledding fun.

I hike and camp a lot in the middle of the hottest days of the year and there are a lot of times that it is for long periods of time with no access to showers. I was wondering what you have heard about Icebreaker underwear and how well they are about odor. – Katherine, Greenville, S.C.

By 7:20 a.m. Friday the parking lot at Mount Rainier National Park’s White River Wilderness Information Center already was packed.

If your last visit to Mount Rainier National Park was in July or August, you’re not alone.

If you’re going to be outdoors, be mindful of wildfire risk this season

The 2009 Summer Speaker Series at Mount Rainier National Park kicks off Saturday and includes programs at Ohanapecosh for the first time.

In 1992 when Mount Rainier National Park hired Stefan Lofgren to keep climbers safe on the upper mountain, his climbing résumé could be summed up in one line:

Five years after Mount Rainier took his best friend, Scott Richards can finally tell the story without crying.

What: Street scrambles are growing in popularity in the Northwest. Whether you are a walker, runner or cyclist you can play this game. You will receive a map shortly before the race marked with about 30 checkpoints. Each checkpoint is assigned a point value. When the race starts, you will have 90 minutes to visit as many checkpoints as possible, answering a question on your scorecard at each stop. If you don’t return on time, you will lose points for each minute you are late. The player or team (teams must stick together at all times) with the most points wins.