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Wine, wildlife and wilderness adventures await in the Puget Sound region, finds Ella Buchan


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’d winched myself 45 metres above ground before my legs gave up. Stiff and aching, I dangled in my harness and gazed at the tangle of branches above


me, the last of the daylight glinting through the canopy of pea-green leaves. “Nearly there,” said my guide, Leo, whose company


AdventureTerra runs tree-climbing tours. I had joined the sunset excursion, which involves scaling a 60m Douglas fir in Deception Pass State Park, at the tip of Whidbey Island in Washington state. Taking a deep breath, I heaved myself up to a broad branch with views over the water, just in time to see the sky swirl with soft shades of satsuma and lilac. Such moments feel rare and precious, but they’re remarkably easy to find in this part of the world. A visit


to Washington’s Puget Sound region, in the Pacific Northwest, can be as challenging or as chilled-out as you like. Clients could start their day sipping coffee from the world’s first Starbucks cafe in Seattle, and be sipping wine in Woodinville by afternoon. Or they could head to salt-sprayed islands, or the vast, forested Olympic National Park for outdoor adventures. Direct flights from London to Seattle with Norwegian,


Virgin Atlantic and British Airways make it easy to combine a city break with coastal exploration.


SEATTLE The birthplace of Starbucks and Amazon combines cutting-edge culture with a laid-back, outdoorsy vibe.


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