Paddling with a bunch of summer campers from Orcas to a smaller, remoter Puget Sound island turned out to be a formative experience for Ross Hoover, who took over as director of Clark County’s parks department last year.

“A lot of those kids had never experienced nature in that way, this little island where there was no electricity,” Hoover, 48, recalled. Tags Clark County Clark County Government Family Hiking Lifestyles

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