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Page A-38 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020 ' Sports Outdoors THE TI'MIL~ Taking a day trip: Port Gamble a safe bet for a fun time ByICMARK WOYTOWICH f FAB POST at? There’s a Hood Canal outside of Mason County? Yes, Virginia, there is, and what better way to actually experience this than by taking a road trip to the northernmost points of everyone’s favorite fjord. We assume we “own” Hood Canal down here, but what do homeowners think about it in Port Gamble, Port Ludlow, Seabeck and Quilcene? What is up there? What are people doing? Where are they boating, clamming and crab- bing? Where do they hang out, gossip and sip coffee? Better yet, where do they drink beer? HAVE LENS, WILL TRAVEL While everyone else is going modern, buy- ing cars that take oral orders and drive you to exactly where you want to go, I remain among the “diner—saurs,” preferring to find my tavern or restaurant by paper map or the proverbial seat of my pants. photographer George Stenberg, is also one of those who talks to his dashboard or p cellphone for directions (“Siri, where is the strongest whiskey in Jefferson County?”) but he 'has allowed me to direct today’s show, as they say, working out our full day’s itiner- ary with nothing but an oversized DeLorme W Washington Atlas & Gazetteer in my lap... For those of you too new to the planet to recall the old gazetteers — the name .‘means My regular partner in road trip crime, » see TRAIL, page A-—3Sl . .. 7.. r Saying goodbye toan old friend and belovedCOach arly last week, I found out that a longtime Coach and friend from my home state of Utah had died after spending more than 30 days fighting COVID-19 that the world is a poorer place with his passing. In more than two decades as a profes- sional sports writer, very few people have left an imprint on my career the way By JUSTIN in an, intensive care that Russell did. unit. JOHNSON Russell was a While it’s unlikely legendary girls bas- that many —- if any ketball coach at Og- at all of my readers here in MaSon County have heard of Ogden High School’s Phil Russell, you should know den High, leading the Tigers to five state championships, 10 region titles and more than 500 Wins in a career that spanned 42 years at the school. A little over a decade ago, February 2010 to be more precise, I sat in Ogden’s gym as Russell’s Tigers rallied from a first-'half deficit to beat Box Elder on the last day of the regular season to give him his 500th career coaching win. He was the first girls basketball coach in the state to achieve'that milestone and was only re- cently passed as Utah’s all- time wins leader. Afterward, the team out down the nets a tradition usually reserved for winning a championship -— and the school presented him with an award for the feat. It was a deserved moment in the limelight for RuSsell, whose nasally voice and jo- vial personality won him the admiration of friend and foe alike. . Following the awards and honors, I spoke with Russell and he quickly turned the numbers toward the play- ers, saying that it was they — not him — that made-the “magic.” ,- Russell was an old-school coach that ran a 1-3-1 trap- ping defense and annoyed many a team with his four- corner offense that foiled opponents that outsized and out-athleticismed his Tigers. I covered one such game , when Ogden faced a larger school led by'a Stanford Uni- versity-bound player in the state quarterfinals. Using a combination of that trapping defense and slow-as-quicksand, see POST, page A-40 E'FC‘P; on.- .‘1