PMW in the PNW!

Proper Mountain Women in the Pacific Northwest

For the next little while on this blog we will be highlighting the beautiful Pacific Northwest... for all the proper mountain women who are lucky enough to live there and for those who day-dream of traveling there... this is for you!

I absolutely love any chance I get to visit the Pacific Northwest, it is a glorious part of the country... not only is it chalk full of natural beauty (the orchards, the mountains, the rain forest, and the ocean), it's where two of the most beautiful, weird, and unique cities in the country make their home, Portland and Seattle.

The Pacific Northwest is Mecca for Proper Mountain Women... to be completely surrounded by forestry evergreens, thriving art, home-made goods, farmers markets, PLUS weather that allows you to bundle up, wear boots, let your hair go wild...  AND on top of all that, you are never too far from delicious, organic, fun restaurants to try out... well, we proper mountain women can't get enough.

If you google the Pacific Northwest there is an endless amount of "travel guides" and "best of the PNW" lists already written... so we hope to present a Pacific Northwest that is different from what is readily available in a quick Internet search. This week will be a Proper Mountain Woman's guide to the Pacific Northwest, or PMW in the PNW. It isn't going to be your normal "must sees" of the area (though we will have a whirlwind tour of Seattle for you), this will be Pacific Northwest stuff that is off the beaten path, that maybe only a proper mountain woman would delight in.

Some of my close mountain women friends who live in the area have written some wonderful posts/articles for me to share about places to enjoy and new hobbies to try in this unique part of the country... I hope some of the information is new and exciting to you, or inspires you to get out and explore your own area the way a proper mountain woman would.

Here we go!

Posts:
the puget sound and ballard locks
the mountain is out  (by amanda jane)
flowers flowers flowers
lily von's guide to portland (by lily von)
meet me at mill ends park 
sea glass hunting 101 (pt. 1) (by amanda jane)
we are adventurers (sea glass hunting pt. 2) (by amanda jane)
foraging organic
that's my jam (by amanda jane)
a proper whirlwind tour of seattle
seattle to portland on the 101