Ashford News

Sometimes it seems as if half the hiking population in Western Washington has taken to the hills.

When New York filmmaker Ryan Sands came to Ashford last year for the Rainier Independent Film Festival, he had had writer's block for a year.

The Gifford Pinchot National Forest's high-elevation campgrounds, such as Takhlakh Lake, Olallie Lake, Chain-of-Lakes and Walput Lake, are scheduled to open by late June.

A Mount Rainier National Park climbing ranger, Chris Olson, and world renowned Mount Rainier climbing guide, Dave Hahn, will receive a Valor Award and a Citizen's Award for Bravery from the U.S. Department of the Interior at an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. on May 6. Climbing ranger Olson and guide Dave Hahn, who currently works with Rainier ...

Mount Rainier is the site of film, mountain and arts festivals this year. Three festivals will return to Mount Rainier in 2009: The third Mt.

Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. said it's signed up mountaineering legends Peter Whittaker, Ed Viesturs and Dave Hahn to design a new line of outerwear and gear called "First Ascent." Among their mountaineering ...

A rare white Christmas in Western Washington gave way to warmer temperatures, disappearing snow and more roof problems as the remnants of the past week's winter storm melted away Friday.

The frozen body of a man has been found in a sleeping bag in his motor home near Ashford.

Get out your longjohns. The coldest temperatures in 18 years are blowing into Western Washington from Canada's Fraser River Valley.