Olympic Mountains

The surf beat on the rocky shores of the straits both north and south.

Above the dense black forest, which came down almost to the water's edge, rose the snowy ridge of the Olympic Mountains.

Captain Mires sent the longboat to find an anchoring place, as he wanted to trade for sea otter robes.

But at once, war canoes gathered around the longboat, while Indians tried to jump into it and steal the small trading articles lying there.

As a pocket of chilly air moves over the northwest, spotty showers and thunderstorms may develop, with some producing small hail.

AccuWeather's Brett Anderson said that some ridges and peaks in the Cascades and Olympic Mountains may receive accumulating snow this weekend.

Across the Northern Rockies, highs in the 40s, 50s and 60s this weekend will replace the midweek highs in the 80s and 90s.

The storm ushering in the cooler air will also spread scattered rain showers and thunderstorms across the interior Northwest and Northern Rockies.

It's still privately owned and the most visited attraction in the Pacific Northwest.

When finished, the Space Needle was the tallest building west of the Mississippi, with views stretching from the Cascade Mountains in the east to the Olympics in the west, from the towering Mount Rainier in the south to the volcanic Mount Baker in the north.

Even today, views are unimpeded by tall office buildings, since the Seattle Center, where the Space Needle resides, is a mile from downtown.

The Space Needle's foundation weighs as much as the tower, placing the center of gravity right at ground level.

The surf beat on the rocky shores of the straits both north and south.

Above the dense black forest, which came down almost to the water's edge, rose the snowy ridge of the Olympic Mountains.

Captain Mires sent the longboat to find an anchoring place, as he wanted to trade for sea otter robes.

But at once, war canoes gathered around the longboat, while Indians tried to jump into it and steal the small trading articles lying there.

And I don't have tons of really vivid memories from that time, and I distinctly remember seeing this thing, this glacier, and could not believe it existed in the same world that I was in, and I think a lot of those little memories are actually quite formative.

And in thinking upon this, another thing I think that maybe drove me toward the science I ended up finding, and some of this also is simply through sport, like through loving winter sports, skiing since I was little and things like this, but actually my years as a U.S. climbing ranger, where I had this incredible opportunity living in the backcountry, I was stationed at Mount Olympus in the Olympic Mountains in Washington many summers and moving across these glaciers and climbing the same route year after year and seeing, actually seeing changes that I didn't understand and seeing increases in avalanche and rock fall and responding to those incidents that were becoming more frequent.

And I think these cumulative experiences, truly both from skiing as a child and this little module on glaciers in eighth grade all the way through watching change in a place that really ended up feeling like a home to me in the Olympics.

ended up helping me kind of find the science that I now do.

Amazing.

The surf beat on the rocky shores of the straits both north and south.

Above the dense black forest, which came down almost to the water's edge, rose the snowy ridge of the Olympic Mountains.

Captain Mires sent the longboat to find an anchoring place, as he wanted to trade for sea otter robes.

But at once war canoes gathered around the longboat, while Indians tried to jump into it and steal the small trading articles lying there.

And bachelor party week is next week.

So we are pushing to get you all 32 of these episodes before we wrap it up and go out into the Olympic mountains cam.

I'm so excited, but we're not here to talk about that.

We're here to hear what your thoughts are on wide receiver Skylar Bell out of UConn.