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If you think the Pacific Northwest is all hiking, coffee and craft beer...

you'd be absolutely correct. But it's some of the best hiking, coffee and craft beer in North America . Encompassing Washington, Oregon and parts of Canada's British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest is known for its impressive glacier-laced mountain ranges, rugged coastlines, perpetually green forests and quirky cities. While the region does have a bit of a rainy reputation, you'll never be far from a hot cup of coffee; Seattle is the birthplace of Starbucks, after all. PNW locals cherish their outdoor activities, so lace up your hiking boots and grab your reusable mug... it's time to explore the best of the "Upper Left."

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However, we continue to strongly recommend that all Intrepid travelers and leaders get vaccinated to protect themselves and others.

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What to pack for the Pacific Northwest depends on what time of year you're travelling and what you're planning on doing. Comfortable walking shoes are a must for all destinations, and layers are always a good idea (even in the summertime) as the weather can change quickly in all seasons.

Hiking trips require proper trekking gear: a mixture of lightweight, quick-drying clothing, properly fitting hiking boots and sun protection. To avoid buying plastic, a water bottle or bladder/hose system to refill along the way is a must.

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From the wilds of Mount St. Helens to the shadow of giants in the Redwoods, fall under the spell of the Pacific Northwest and California. Travel along Oregon’s beautiful coast, making stops at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Bandon and Coos Bay. Explore Oregon's wilderness on a Rogue River cruise. Visit Redwood National Park's Avenue of the Giants. Cross the Golden Gate Bridge and discover the “City by the Bay,” San Francisco. Explore the natural beauty from Seattle to San Francisco.

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• Embark on a sightseeing tour of Seattle, the "Emerald City."

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• Visit lively Pike Place Market, Seattle's famous fish and vegetable market.

Venture to Mount St. Helens Visitor Center to learn about its volcanic activity.

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Savor a wine-tasting while gazing at views of Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams.

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Add a night in Seattle before your tour begins. Your hotel, the Thompson Seattle, is conveniently located steps away from Pike Place Market on a bustling street lined with cafes, shops and restaurants (the original Starbucks is right around the corner from your hotel). Also within walking distance are museums and local landmarks. Enjoy a guided "Insider's" tour of Pike Place market followed by a visit to the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden and Glass, a monument to art as glass featuring an astounding display of Dale Chihuly's installations. Hosted You’re accompanied by a Tour Manager part of the time, for some guided excursions. The rest of the time, you’re at leisure to explore the destination your own way.

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• Arrive in Seattle, the Emerald City on Puget Sound. Check into your hotel and enjoy time on your own to settle in. A local representative will meet you at the hotel to assist with recommendations on how you can spend your afternoon and evening.
• After breakfast, join a local guide on a walking tour of the famed Pike Place Market – one of the country’s oldest farmers markets – on Seattle’s bustling waterfront. All of your senses will be engaged as you have fun exploring the historic arcade and winding alleys. Later, travel like a local on Seattle’s Monorail to the Seattle Center. Take your time visiting the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden and Glass – a monument to art as glass featuring an astounding display of Dale Chihuly’s installations. Your entry includes 8 galleries, the central Glasshouse, and a sculpture garden.

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Embark on a sightseeing tour of Seattle, the "Emerald City."

Behold the majestic beauty of the Redwood Forest's "Avenue of the Giants."

Visit lively Pike Place Market, Seattle's famous fish and vegetable market.

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Union Pacific's legendary Big Boy No. 4014 will make stops in California

Train lovers in the High Desert are planning a summer trip to see Union Pacific's legendary Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive.

The Union Pacific Steam Club released Big Boy’s “2024 Westward Bound Tour” summer schedule. The world's largest operating steam locomotive, built to conquer mountains, will make 19 whistle-stops in five states —Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and California. The tour begins in June.  

The mighty locomotive will be on public display for two days each in Roseville, California, July 12-13, and Ogden, Utah, July 20-21.

“Our family loves trains, so we plan on seeing the Big Boy and going on the special passenger tour when it stops in Roseville in July,” said Oscar Montoya, who lives in Victorville. “When we come back, we’ll visit the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.”

Scott Moore, retired senior vice president for corporate relations and chief administrative officer for Union Pacific said the 1.2 million pound Big Boy “makes a big impression in communities it visits, reminding us of bygone days and the important role the railroad continues to play in our global economy." 

Big Boy’s schedule

Big Boy will leave its home base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Sunday, June 30, traveling across Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California and Idaho during July. 

Display days in Roseville and Ogden offer an up-close look at the 1.1-million-pound marvel along with the "Experience the Union Pacific" rail car, a captivating walk-through exhibition that provides a unique glimpse into the rich history of railroading.

Scheduled whistle-stops include:

• Sunday, June 30: Laramie, Wyoming
• Monday, July 1: Wamsutter, Wyoming
• Wednesday, July 3: Green River, Wyoming
• Thursday, July 4: Morgan, Utah
• Saturday, July 6: Wells, Nevada
• Monday, July 8: Carlin, Nevada and Battle Mountain, Nevada
• Tuesday, July 9: Gerlach, Nevada
• Thursday, July 11: Oroville, California
• Sunday, July 14: Colfax, California and Truckee, California
• Tuesday, July 16: Lovelock, Nevada
• Wednesday, July 17: Carlin, Nevada
• Friday, July 19: Montello, Nevada
• Monday, July 22: Brigham City, Utah, and Soda Springs, Idaho
• Tuesday, July 23: Kemmerer, Wyoming
• Thursday, July 25: Point of Rocks, Wyoming
• Friday, July 26: Medicine Bow, Wyoming

Special passenger tour

During the tour, the Union Pacific Museum will host a special passenger trip. The unique experience is the annual gala fundraiser for the nonprofit organization and provides a rare opportunity to travel on this historic heritage equipment.

Ticket holders will be invited to arrive in Roseville on the evening of July 12 for a meet-and-greet opportunity and to pick up ticket information at the Doubletree by Hilton Sacramento.

On Saturday, July 13, passengers will enjoy the day visiting the Big Boy on display in Roseville and using their complimentary passes to tour the California State Railroad Museum at their leisure. Visitors will finish the day with a private dinner reception that evening at the Doubletree by Hilton.

On Sunday morning, July 14, passengers will board coaches from the Doubletree by Hilton Sacramento and be taken to the boarding area. Guests will travel over the Sierra Nevada to Sparks, where they will disembark the train and luxury motor coach back to the hotel in Roseville.  

Train safety

Overnight stops for the Big Boy are closed to the public due to safety and security reasons unless otherwise noted on the schedule. 

Union Pacific reminds all rail fans to keep safety top of mind and stay 25 feet back from the tracks when taking a picture or viewing this mammoth machine. Never take a picture or video standing on the track or the ballast and never climb on the locomotive or equipment. 

Railroad tracks, trestles, yards, and right of way are private property - do not trespass. If you are following the Big Boy, be a safe and courteous driver - do not pace the train.

Big Boy, previous visits to the High Desert

In October 2019, Big Boy made a stop in Victorville  during its "Great Race Across the Southwest," a third and final tour of the train that celebrated its 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

Big Boy also came through the High Desert in April 2014  and made a stop in Barstow as it was towed by a modern Union Pacific engine from Colton to Wyoming. 

For tour tickets, schedules, maps and more information, visit  UPtrainTix.org ,  up.com , or  UPsteam.com .

Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on X @DP_ReneDeLaCruz

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Year of construction: 1992 Architect: Kisho Kurokawa Surface area: 55,800 sq.m Height: 84 m. 25 floors Former name: La Pacific, Japan Tower

Address: 11 cours Valmy - 92800 Puteaux Nearest car park : Valmy Nearest public transport: La Défense (Grande Arche)

Formerly called Japan Tower, La Pacific is the first link, with the Kupka ensemble, of the Valmy district. Designed by a charismatic figure of Japanese architecture, Kisho Kurokawa, it symbolizes the Franco-Japanese rapprochement. The slender arched shape of the building, consisting of two wings connected by a multi-storey bridge, is inspired by traditional European architecture; while the curtain wall refers to the Japanese style - a tea room and a Japanese garden are also laid out on the 25th floor. Crossed by an opening, presented as the Gateway to the Orient, the building has a footbridge, an abstract expression of the Japanese bridge, linking it to the Kupka buildings. The Pacific Tower is a remarkable construction combining space and time saving thanks to "high performance quality" concrete and the installation of the façade cladding elements before pouring the load-bearing veil.

A word about the architect

A student of Kenzo, Tange, Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007) is one of the most charismatic figures of post-war Japanese architecture. He founded his agency in 1962 after having participated in the creation of the metabolist movement that theorized organically inspired spatial architectures. This research is perfectly expressed in his most famous artwork: the Nagakin Capsule Tower in Tokyo. He is thus moving towards a symbiosis between Japanese values and the potential of contemporary technology. With a view to bringing France and Japan closer together, Kisho Kurokawa designed two artworks at La Défense: the Pacific and the bridge linking it to the Kupka buildings, the Japan Bridge.

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Local News | The Empress steam locomotive rolls through Franklin Park on Canadian Pacific ‘Final Spike’ tour

The locomotive’s stop was part of the one-year anniversary of the Canadian Pacific’s purchase of the Kansas City Southern line. The buy created the only single-line railway connecting the three North American countries, and hauls freight.

“It’s a nice engine,” said Mike Brown, who was among the throng that stood in the shade near the track, watching the old engine blow off steam. Brown visited the locomotive with his family, all train buffs for decades.

While The Empress was not open for tours inside the train — crowds stood outside of police tape and safety bollards along the track — the sheer size of the metal locomotive’s engine and its century of service running rails in Canada seemed enough.

The Empress’ trip this time originated in Calgary, Canada, the home office of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in late April and its trip will conclude early next month. If the stops so far have been any indication, the train will be seen by thousands, while a crew of engineers versed in modern rail engines tend to the needs and demands of the old engine.

Ben Cummings, one of the engineers on The Empress, said he has 28 years of experience on trains, and running an old steam locomotive is entirely different from modern vehicles. First, every 100 or so miles the train has to stop for lubing and while two tanks of water can last a fair bit, it’s another resource the crew has to attend to, he said.

All the while, mile by mile and town to town, the crew works, sleeps and relaxes together on the train. Cummings said it’s a good work environment, including operators who also naturally love the job.

“There’s no easy job here,” Cummings said. “On the train, everyone, even the hospitality people who cook, work hard, every day.”

At the controls are a handful of highly trained personnel, he explained.

“I think everybody on this crew is a locomotive engineer,” he said, explaining that “engineer” is a designation denoting skills and education as opposed to a particular job. “We’ve got a great team here.”

The fans who come out to observe the engine help buoy the crew’s spirits, and Cummings said he likes answering fans’ questions.

“At each stop we’ll get 8,000 or 9,000 people,” he said. “Which is impressive, honestly.”

The Empress isn’t quite as massive as the Big Boy, the world’s largest steam engine, made by Union Pacific. One of those engines made its way across the United States in 2019 and stopped in west suburban Elmhurst. The Browns were on hand to witness that one too, family members said.

Still, The Empress had plenty to brag about.

The Browns and many others standing along the tracks in Franklin Park are all too young to have ridden on The Empress when it was in regular service. And though some steam engines are available for private rides and rentals or along specialty routes, their heyday is long gone.

Still, Cummings said, there’s an attraction to the old ways when the rails ran engines across the prairies of Canada and the United States, hauling people and trailing steam.

“It stirs up memories and stories,” said Cummings, “just to see it.”

Jesse Wright is a freelancer.

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Mount Hood National Forest hosting guided summer hikes: Here's how to sign up

M ount Hood National Forest will begin its second “Hike with a Ranger” summer series after a successful first year. The hikes will include a natural or cultural resource theme led by a recreation specialist and will run on some Saturdays now through October.

Topics range from the hydrology of waterfalls to the lifecycle of salmon and mushrooms to wildflower identification in the area. The hike schedule includes varying difficulty levels. Registration is free but must be done in advance due to limits for the number of people on each hike.

For more information on hikes including registration, go to: fs.usda.gov/goto/mthood/hikewitharanger

Mount Hood “Hike with a Ranger” summer series schedule

May 11: Little Zigzag Falls Trail – Hydrology of Little Zigzag Falls

June 22: Show Pony Trail – Mount Hood's wildfire crisis strategy

June 29: Dog River Trail – Mushroom and plant identification on Mount Hood’s east side

July 13: Lakeshore Trail – Wildlife identification and habitat of the Lost Lake area

July 27: Crosstown and Enid Lake Trails – Plants and wildflowers of the Government Camp area

Aug. 10: Pacific Crest and Twin Lakes Trails – Wilderness areas around Mount Hood

Aug. 24: Trillium Lake Loop Trail – Wildlife of the Trillium Lake area

Sept. 7: Laurance Lake High Ridge Trail – Geology of Mount Hood’s north face and nearby lava flows

Sept. 14: Old Salmon River Trail – The lifecycle of Pacific Northwest salmon

Sept. 21: Tilly Jane Trail – Cloud Cap and Tilly Jane Historic Area tour

Oct. 5: Tamanawas Falls/East Fork Trail Loop – Anadromous fish and aquatic ecosystems

Oct. 12: Pioneer Bridle Trail – The Barlow Road segment of the Oregon National Historic Trail

Emma Logan is an outdoors journalism intern for the Statesman Journal. She can be reached at [email protected]  or on X @emmmalogan

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China’s Xi Jinping begins first Europe tour in five years in France

Chinese president wants to repair ties with a sceptical Western Europe but faces questions over his stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first trip to Europe in five years, which is likely to be dominated by Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as economic strains between Beijing and Brussels.

The first stop will be France, with Xi due to hold talks in Paris on May 6 with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, before travelling south to the Pyrenees.

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After that, he will travel to Serbia and Hungary, two countries that have maintained close ties with Russia despite its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

According to Matt Geracim, the assistant director of the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, the Chinese president is travelling to Europe with three goals: “repairing relations in Europe damaged by China’s support for Russia’s war on Ukraine, blunting the EU’s economic security agenda vis-a-vis China, and showcasing Beijing’s strong ties with its stalwart partners Serbia and Hungary.”

Here is all you need to know about Xi’s European tour, which continues until Friday.

The big picture

Beijing and Paris are marking 60 years since diplomatic relations were established, with France the first Western country to formally recognise the People’s Republic of China on January 27, 1964.

But the trip also comes amid a deteriorating global security climate, with the war in Ukraine now into its third year and at least 34,683 Palestinians killed in Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza .

France has said those two conflicts, particularly Ukraine where Beijing has professed neutrality but not condemned Moscow for its full-scale invasion, will feature prominently in the talks.

“Exchanges will focus on international crises, first and foremost the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East,” the Elysee Palace said in a statement ahead of the visit last week.

Macron has recently emerged as one of the most hawkish of the EU leaders on the continent’s security, and he will be urging Xi to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. In an interview with the Economist newspaper published last week, the French president argued the war was existential for Europe.

“If Russia wins in Ukraine there will be no security in Europe,” he said. “Who can pretend that Russia will stop there?” What security would there be, he asked, for neighbouring countries: Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and others?

To underline the unity of the European position, von der Leyen will also join Monday’s discussions, which are due to get under way just after 11am (09:00 GMT).

As well as the Ukraine war, Europe is also concerned about Chinese business practices and has initiated an investigation into China’s subsidies for electric vehicle manufacturers , amid concerns such payments are undermining competition and harming European companies.

Macron told the Economist that he would also convey to Xi why Europe needs to safeguard its own manufacturers and industries.

Ahead of Xi’s departure last week, Lin Jian, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Beijing was ready to “work with France and the EU to take this meeting as an opportunity to make the China-EU relations more strategic, stable, constructive and mutually beneficial, promote steady and sustained progress in China-EU relations, and contribute to the prosperity of both China and Europe and a peaceful world.”

Following Monday’s summit, Marcon and his wife, Brigitte, will host Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, to a state banquet.

On Tuesday, Macron will take the Chinese leader to the Pyrenees mountains, where he made regular trips to see his grandmother as a child. The two couples are also expected to take a cable car up to the summit of the 2,877-metre (9,439 ft) Pic du Midi, a dark sky reserve.

After wrapping his trip in France, Xi will head to Serbia where he will arrive in Belgrade on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy for talks with President Aleksandar Vucic. Three people were killed when Washington said it accidentally struck the compound during the NATO air campaign against  Serb forces occupying Kosovo , in an event that triggered outrage and protests in China.

China has since emerged as the biggest single source of investment in Serbia, which is not a member of the EU, and prior to the trip Lin, the MOFA spokesperson, referred to the two countries’ ties as “ironclad”.

“The bombing remains a significant topic for Chinese officials, who use it to support narratives that question the values of liberal democracies,” Stefan Vladisavljev, programme director at Foundation BFPE for a Responsible Society wrote in an online analysis. “For Serbia, the visit presents an opportunity to strengthen its position as China’s main partner in the Western Balkans.”

Xi will then travel on May 8 to Budapest, the final stop on his European tour.

There he will meet Hungarian President Viktor Orban, the most Russia-friendly leader in the EU.

Hungary, whose policies have raised concern among other EU members, has become more closely aligned with Beijing and Moscow and recently signed a security cooperation agreement with China that allows Chinese police officers to work in areas where there are large populations of ethnic Chinese or which are popular with Chinese tourists, according to Zoltan Feher is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub.

Reports on such Chinese police stations have raised alarm in other parts of Europe, particularly among exiles and dissidents.

Hungary is also part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which it joined in 2015, and the two men are likely to discuss the ongoing construction of the high-speed rail between Budapest and Belgrade.

Ukraine war

Macron has spoken increasingly about the need to develop Europe’s own security architecture rather than rely on NATO and the US.

He has even suggested that France would be willing to send its troops to Ukraine, if Russia broke through the front lines and Kyiv asked for assistance.

China has long maintained it is neutral in the war, but Beijing and Moscow have deepened their ties since the full-scale invasion began, and Putin is expected to visit China this month.

Macron will be hoping to persuade Xi of the need for China to get more closely involved in efforts to secure peace as Switzerland organises a peace conference next month to discuss a 10-point plan put forward by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the end of 2022.

The Swiss say they have already invited more than 160 delegations, but it is not clear whether Beijing, which has also put forward a proposal for peace talks and deployed its own envoy in the region, will attend.

Russia has repeatedly dismissed the process, and insists a precursor for negotiations is that Kyiv give up the 20 percent of its territory that Russia currently occupies.

“We must continue to engage China, which is objectively the international player with the greatest leverage to change Moscow’s mind,” the French newspaper Le Monde quoted an unnamed diplomatic source as saying.

Human rights

Chinese state media have been reporting breathlessly on Xi’s arrival in Paris; the streets decorated with Chinese and French flags and groups of Chinese nationals welcoming their president.

But campaigners for Tibet and Xinjiang, where the United Nations says China may have committed crimes against humanity in holding some 1 million ethnic Uighur Muslims in re-education camps, were also out on the streets of the capital.

The EU imposed targeted sanctions on certain Chinese officials and companies over Xinjiang in March 2021, prompting anger in Beijing.

Delighted to be at a protest in Paris “welcoming” Xi Jinping’s visit Amazing to see global solidarity among Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and many others in pursuit of freedom from the CCP 💪💪💪 香港人加油 pic.twitter.com/ecsnOjqZDN — Anouk Wear 華穆清 (@anoukwear) May 5, 2024

Human Rights Watch says while the French president did not raise the issue publicly on his visit to China last year, he should do so while Xi is in Paris and call for the release of those arbitrarily detained or imprisoned including Ilham Tohti , an Uighur economist who was awarded the Sakharov Prize, Europe’s most prominent human rights award in 2019.

The human rights organisation said Macron should also raise the issue of Tibet, where some 1 million Tibetan children are being placed in boarding schools and separated from their language and culture, and Hong Kong, once the most free territory in China but now subject to two draconian security laws.

“President Macron should make it clear to Xi Jinping that Beijing’s crimes against humanity come with consequences for China’s relations with France,” Maya Wang, the acting China director at Human Rights Watch said in a statement. “France’s silence and inaction on human rights would only embolden the Chinese government’s sense of impunity for its abuses, further fuelling repression at home and abroad.”

On April 30, Macron was pictured at the Elysee Palace with Penpa Tsering, the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, on the sidelines of a ceremony to honour former Senator Andre Gattolin, a longtime supporter Tibet, who was awarded the Legion d’Honneur.

Penpa Tsering presented the French president with a signed photo of his 2016 meeting with the Dalai Lama and “urged him not to forget Tibet”, according to a report the Central Tibetan Administration.

“We understand that the agenda between the two presidents will be dense given the many international crises such as in Ukraine and in the Middle East, but this must not be done at the expense of exchanges on human rights, which are in a deplorable state throughout the country as well as in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet, where a latent conflict has been going on for over 60 years and poses a threat to regional and international security,” Vincent Metten, the EU policy director for the International Campaign for Tibet said in a statement.

In Freedom House’s 2024 report on Freedom in the World, Tibet’s overall score was zero out of 100; the lowest in at least eight years.

Maryse Artiguelong, the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), said: “The conflict in Ukraine highlights the threat posed to international order and security by authoritarian regimes such as Russia and the People’s Republic of China. Their aggressive foreign policies and repressive domestic policies are inextricably linked: Anyone who does not oppose China’s human rights violations risks one day facing its aggressive foreign policy.”