The breathtaking beauty of the Pacific Northwest seems perpetually in your face—the jagged snow-capped peaks of the Olympics, the rolling mountain ranges of the Cascades.
There are times Mount Rainier seems so close, it’s almost like you can reach out and touch it.
Almost.
Yet some people spend their entire lives seeing these mountains from every possible angle without ever visiting them.
That is particularly true for people of color, and not just in the Pacific Northwest but across the United States, where studies and anecdotal evidence show they are among the most infrequent users of state and federal lands.