The Issaquah Alps Trails Club offers guided hikes, public land advocacy, and performs trail maintenance in the modest range of Cascade foothills known as the Issaquah Alps near Seattle, Washington, in the United States. The IATC also publishes books about local coal-mining history, trail guidebooks, and distributes detailed trail maps of Cougar Mountain, Tiger Mountain, and Squak Mountain.
Read more about Issaquah Alps Trails Club: History
Famous quotes containing the words alps, trails and/or club:
“Th’ increasing prospect tires our wand’ring eyes.
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ:
Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)