The Edge of the World
Posted By Peter On February 28, 2006 @ 6:52 pm In outdoors | Comments Disabled
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Sometimes travel decisions are as simple as character movement in 1980s videogames. For a destination last weekend, I pushed the joystick up and to the left as far as it would go, and a few hours later ended up in the north-westernmost [2] part of the continental US.
Cape Flattery [3] (which will get you nowhere except Tatoosh Island [4]) is part of the territory of the qwi·qwi·diččat [5] nation. Buying a visitor’s pass [6] at tribal headquarters (or at Washburn’s General Store) entitles you to drive out to the trailhead, where a 3/4 mile, mostly-flat hike takes you to the view seen above. Watch for nesting bald eagles on the way — they seem to enjoy ocean-front real estate.
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[1] Image: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/02/CRW_7417.phtml
[2] north-westernmost: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=48.390022~-124.727697&style=h&lvl=15
[3] Cape Flattery: http://www.northolympic.com/capeflatterytrail/
[4] Tatoosh Island: http://www.naturalmoment.com/lighthouses/Tatoosh-Light-2.html
[5] qwi·qwi·diččat: http://www.makah.com
[6] visitor’s pass: http://www.makah.com/permits.htm
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