At 7:30 Saturday morning, the Climb Against Coal team successfully summitted with our message to Governor Gregoire: coal burning must end in Washington. We are spreading our message far and wide and, with help from all of you concerned about our children, our mountain, and our future, we will move forward into the renewable energy future. Please contact Governor Gregoire and tell her you want her to put our future first and put a stop to burning coal.
Write Governor Gregoire a letter:
Governor Chris Gregoire
Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
Give Governor Gregoire’s Office a call:
Governor’s Office 360-902-4111
For relay operators for the deaf or hard of hearing, please dial 7-1-1
Last week two representatives from Fuse Washington interviewed Jen, Julie and Genevieve about why we are doing this climb and what we hope to get out of it. We hope to spread our message far and wide in the next few days so please check out these interviews with the team!
Yet another training day on Mount Si-this time with heavy packs and snow at the top. We made good time and we are feeling good about our progress. Haley Brown, our 6 year old friend and climber made it to the top too!! I am so proud of you Haley!
We have a long way to go and it is hard to imagine that I can keep this up for another 3 months but so far so good. It is also odd to remember that we did this hike in February on a beautiful sunny day with no snow at the top…now, three months later it was cold, windy and snowy…Northwest Spring can be so unpredictable.
I took the boys up to Mount Rainier today for a fun sunny family snow shoe. We have not been up as a family since the kids were born but ever since we have talked about climbing the Mountain, I have been compelled to visit and stare as much as possible. The Spring Break weather was great and I wanted to eek out one more day before the weather turned bad…it just so happened to be my birthday so I got my wish! We drove up in the morning and rented snow shoes for the kids-they loved it. Stopped in at the Longmire Ranger Station and the kids loved the museum with all of the stuffed animals that live in the park-the big Mountain Lion was a favorite as were the owl and other birds. We are bird nerds…The ranger recommended a great low-key trail for us and we headed out. With a lunch packed and snowshoes on our feet we set out for out 1.5 mile loop trail that starts in the lower Paradise parking lot…perfect for beginners of all ages including me and Jason! I figured I’d better get used to snow if I am really going to climb this mountain! The weather was so clear and Rainier looked so close-so huge-so intimidating-so beautiful. It took us about 2 hours-not good training time-but great family time. Jason and I carried four little snowshoes the whole way-the little ones got frustrated and tripped a lot-then realized they didn’t need them because they don’t sink! We had a great day-with maybe the most fun coming at the end when we had a big snowball fight and slid down a little snow slide-my first glissade!
The TransAlta plant is the state's largest source of global warming emissions and air pollution. Its plume dumps mercury on Rainier's snowfields which feed the entire Puget Sound watershed. We must transition to clean energy. Our kids are counting on us.
At 7:30 Saturday morning, the Climb Against Coal team successfully summitted with our message to Governor Gregoire: coal burning must end in Washington. We are spreading our message far and wide and, with help from all of you concerned about our children, our mountain, and our future, we will move forward into the renewable energy future. Please contact Governor Gregoire and tell her you want her to put our future first and put a stop to burning coal.
