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WIAA sets
dates for
prep season
Shelton, NorthMason schools
will school year online
Justithohnson
justin@masoncounty. com
While the picture of what high school athletics
in Washington will look like during the upcoming
school year is still cloudy, the Washington Interscho- '
lastic Activities Association in a July 29 meeting in
Renton took steps to provide a clearer picture. ’
The WIAA ‘—- the state’s governing body over
high school sports — previously announced that,
the 2020-21 prep sports calendar will'consist of four
seasons with most traditional fall sports moving to
the spring. In its most recent meeting, the WIAA un-
veiled start dates for each sport. In addition, it said
that all Season 1 competition will be alternate sea-
son competition, meaning the state championship
events for those sports will occur later in the year.
The 2A Evergreen League, which includes Shel-
ton High School, met earlier this week to determine
if the league’s members would compete during the
alternate season or traditional season of boys and
girls cross country, tennis. and golf. A decision had
not been reached by the Shelton-Mason County
Journal’s deadline.
The Shelton School District announced last week
that classes would be online only when the school
year begins Sept. 2. The district did not set a date
for returning to in-person learning, but will evaluate
the status of the pandemic every two weeks to deter-
mine when it’s- safe to return to campus.
North Mason High School also will begin the
school year online for at least the first nine weeks
and will not compete during the WIAA’s Season 1.
The Bulldogs intend instead to compete in those
sports during Season 3. I
Shelton High School’s Kamie Nicklaus takes a free kick during a
nonconference high school girls
soccer match against Elma last season. Girls soccer, like most traditional
fall Sports in Washington,
is scheduled to compete in the spring due to the pandemic. Journal file
photo by Justin Johnson
msee WIAA, page A-Sd
THE TRAIL
Learn how not to cry when your creek goes dry
and then friends and family
you either suspect or know
fully that they support the
Evil Empire.
And once I’m seduced by all
the death and drama, I might
as well get a big “Stay Tuned”
stamp for my forehead, for
ave you ever tried to
Pick out a single voice
from a room full of
babbling talkers?
It’s not easy. Likewise,
this past Week I just real-
ized how infrequently I tune
into my “inner explorer,” that
is, the voice I used to hear “ I’ll be drained of all initiative
all the time that told me to By MARK and just sit there, sticking my
go out and hike someplace WOYTOWICH hand way down into the junk
new. _ food bag for everything that
follows after.
I’m primed for the next conspiracy.
How many tales can wag a dog?
With all my attention focused on
my screens, 1. suddenly realize my
kitchen is smoky with the smell of
burnt democracy, and it occurs to
me, with a shudder, that maybe I’m
partially responsible for fanning the
flames.
“Get out and explore, kid.”
That used to be an easy choice to
make. But lately that voice has been
crowded out by news of the world’s
end -—- talk about a room full of bab-
blersl You harm your media, then your
fake media, your list of villains, sus-
pected villains, your heroes, your plot
twists, your audience and cheerlead-
ers, your righteous but deaf memes,
E.T., ROAM HOME
50 I cleared my clutter and fol‘ ‘
lowed my explorer voice Saturday.
I knew my timing would be on", but
I wanted to make a third attempt
to photograph Fir Creek Falls, this
time by wandering up Vance Creek
until I reached its confluence with Fir
Creek, then ascending the gorge until
I planted my victory flag.
Wrong.
With other creek systems, finding a
confluence is fairly easy; you look for
the fantail low spot where one source
'of flowing water joins another.
But Vance Creek was very dry and
I had to assume that Fir Creek wasn’t
running at all. I coVered more than a
mile of winding, pale riVer rock, each
bend scoured deep from winter’s fiiry,
some with shallow pools holding small
fishes, other spots clustered with
deadf'all trees.
I faced nothing but solid bank
along the section where the con-
fluence should be. Grabbing roots
and kicking toe holds in the clay, I
climbed the bank a few times because
it looked promisineg boggy on the
other side. I thought maybe I’d pick
up some trace of Fir Creek from its
winter run, but blackberries and
devil’s club formed a needle barrier
each time, making quick Work of my
bare legs and sending me back down
to safer exploring.
THE SWITCH --
The falls are my private obsession.
I‘ve been roaming the woods since ._
I was 8 years old, starting with Lan-
terman’s Falls in Ohio, where the
see TRAIL, page A—39
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