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Bellingham (Whatcom County), WA Habitat for Humanity

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Bellingham (Whatcom County) HFH The worksite was a busy place. We arrived in Bellingham, WA at the beginning of June to start the northwestern portion of our builds.  More new experiences.  More new stuff to learn! Bellingham was the largest group we had worked with. It had the greatest number of housing projects that it was working on, the largest staff,  giant “blitz build” days, lots of local volunteers and the largest care-a-vanner contingent we'd worked with yet.  Bellingham itself is a blue collar town north of Seattle almost up to the Canadian border and has  many similarities with Burlington. It's just above the skagit valley and you don't have to go far out of the city proper before you are in farm country.  The valley is rimmed by mountains and Bellingham is set on Bellingham Bay, part of the Strait of Georgia which, after wending its way through some islands, makes its way to the pacific ocean. We worked hard while we were there. We were ...
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Las Cruces, NM to Bellingham, WA: Part III Great Basin NP, NV and Crater Lake NP revisited with snow

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LC to B: Part III. Great Basin NP & Crater Lake revisited with snow Our next stop on our way from Las Cruces to Bellingham was at Great Basin National Park in Nevada. This was a new park for us and I was excited.  I do love to explore new places.  First, let me say, it is in the middle of nowhere. Baker, the park ‘entry’ town is a fun, quirky little place and I do mean little, the projected population for 2025 is 26 (yep, just 26 with no zeros after the 26) and it's still miles from the majority of the park or really anywhere else for that matter. The Great Basin itself is a massive area, over 200,000 square miles that includes most of Nevada, much of Utah and parts of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming and Baja California.  It ranges from North America’s lowest point, Badwater Basin in Death Valley NP at -282’ to the highest point in the contiguous US at 14,505’ less than 100 miles away at the summit of Mt. Whitney.  The area's uniqueness derives fro...
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