downstream on the Skagit River
- Gorge Lake Overlook (wta.org)
This very short trail provides astonishing views of nature’s beauty as well as humanity’s technological “improvements” upon it. The first section of this loop is paved, allowing an out-and-back for all family members, while the remaining graveled loop section is never steep nor too challenging.
- Star Tales - Equuleus (ianridpath.com)
This insignificant constellation, second-smallest in the sky, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century AD. It was unknown to Aratus 400 years earlier, and its invention is often attributed to Ptolemy. In the Almagest he called it Ἵππου Προτομή (Hippou Protome), the forepart of a horse; Equuleus is a later Latin name.
upstream on the Skagit River