That’s Stuart Range … S, T, U, A …
August 4, 2009 by Scott Sandsberry
YAKIMA, Wash. — A fellow from Cle Elum called me this morning with a legitimate question that went something along these lines: Where the heck are you from, boy? ‘Cause it sure ain’t here.
His question was prompted by my column about hiking with the Cascadians’ Tuesday hikers, in which I referenced Edgar Peak, which rises just over 7,000 feet just south of the Stuart Range. I know about the Stuarts, having spent a lot of time hiking around them. I have hiked in to Stuart Lake on a number of occasions, to enjoy that cirque of peaks surrounding it, which are all a part of, yes, the Stuart Range.
The problem was that my brain very rarely seems to be connected to either my mouth — so I often blurt things that make me want to swallow my tongue — or my fingers, which often creates embarrassing gaffes in print. Like typing out the phrase “Stewart Range.” Which is what ran in my column this morning.
There may well be a Stewart Range somewhere, but it isn’t the one that flanks the Teanaway on the north side and that we all love admiring whenever the state’s summer wildfires don’t do such a good job of hiding them behind a brown haze.
That’s the Stuart Range.
My bad.
– Scott Sandsberry
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