Click to see maps of the western Washington and Seattle areas. Yahoo offers a zoom and pan Seattle map. We are justifiably best known for hiking , climbing, skiing , biking , boating , kayaking , and exploring , much of this within a two-hour drive. The weather is highly temperate and perhaps not as bad as we try to portray to visitors. Spring begins in February and lasts until the snow melts in the alpine trails in June.
Summer days are long, temperate, and glorious.
Snow is rare in the city. Return to the graduate program home page.