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No injuries, no suspects after stolen car found down embankment at Louisa Boren Park

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The car’s bumper at the top of the overlook — the rest of the vehicle remained below amid blackberries and the muddy slop (Images: CHS)

A Seattle Fire rope rescue was canceled Friday night after a car was found down the embankment — but empty of occupants — below Louisa Boren Park in North Capitol Hill.

Seattle Fire was called to the scene just before 8 PM after the car was discovered in the brambles on the steep slope below the popular overlook. Seattle Fire crews arrived at the scene and quickly determined there were no occupants in the Honda. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | The Perseids from Capitol Hill a typically Seattle celestial event

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IMG_7886In San Francisco, Karl the Fog ate the Perseids:

Here on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, we only had the clouds to blame. Intrepid CHS photographer Alex Garland set out early Saturday morning to capture an image of this year’s annual August pass through comet dust from Capitol Hill’s Louisa Boren Lookout. You can see the lovely streak of Perseid light above the darkness of Lake Washington at the center of the frame in the image at the top of this post. Not far behind that shooting star came the clouds, flowing in with the certainty that celestial events in Seattle, thanks to city lights and marine layers, are almost always a letdown.

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CHS Pics | Shooting the blood moon from Louisa Boren Park

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Hundreds of moongazers showed up at Louisa Boren Park Sunday night — many packing rather amazing camera set-ups — for a view of the blood moon total eclipse from Capitol Hill.

Enticed by a clear-for-Seattle sky and the rare convergence of the full moon nearest the fall equinox, the moon at its closest approach to Earth for the year, and the eclipse, the Super Harvest Blood Moon shooters were joined by a crowd of skywatchers in the park overlooking Lake Washington along 15th Ave E’s eastern flank. Continue reading →