Lornet Turnbull is a Seattle-based freelance writer who frequently writes about the Pacific Northwest for the Washington Post. She’s also an associate editor for YES Magazine. She grew up exploring the beaches in the British Virgin Islands and rediscovered that passion for the outdoors on the mountains across the Pacific Northwest, where you can still find her these days. REI member since 2010.
The cancer diagnosis felt like the ultimate betrayal. I was a healthy, active, middle-age woman who seldom got sick. In the summer of 2020, I learned I had canc...
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