Hood Canal hideaway: between Seattle and the Olympics, an unsung getaway just got better.(CLASSIC WEST) From: Sunset | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: McCausland, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As you bank over Washington's Hood Canal in a floatplane, you realize just how far 37 air miles have brought you. Seattle is still within sight to the northeast, and the snowcapped Olympic Mountains rise just above the wing to the west. Below is a 60-mile-long fishhook-shaped fjord whose deep, peaceful spirit takes it light-years out of the mainstream.

When your plane makes its soft water landing and taxis up to the dock at the Alderbrook Resort & Spa, life slows down. ...