Posts by Brian Hurley

By Gardiner Vinnedge North Bend was twenty years old in 1909. William H. Taylor had platted the town in 1889 when he learned that the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railroad would be building its line across the Sallal Prairie, heading for Snoqualmie Pass. Bankruptcy stopped construction at a dot on the map just east…

Shortly after moving into our first house, my wife, Beth, and I unexpectedly experienced a part of Valley history.  It was 1989, and we were settling into our home near Rattlesnake Lake when we became aware of a steadily increasing rumbling.  Trying to persuade each other that it was not an earthquake, we walked outside…

John Muir, noted Scottish-American naturalist, had the opportunity to visit the Falls while writing Steep Trails. In the chapter “Puget Sound” he discusses the crown jewel of the region, our own Snoqualmie Falls.  “..But the chief attractions here are not found in the hops, but in trout-fishing and bear-hunting, and in the two fine falls…