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Here’s one thing almost any Pacific Northwesterner will tell you: The rest of the world just doesn’t get us. For a lot of outsiders, Washington often conjures images of a drizzly metropolis that runs on lattes, with techies and tree huggers to boot. Sure, it has all that—but the state is perhaps better defined by sprawling wilderness areas unlike anywhere else on the continent (we said it!).