What does the Pacific Northwest sound like to you? 

Is it the tide rolling over a rocky beach? The wind across the Palouse? Or maybe a ferry horn echoing across the Puget Sound?

On Soundside, we occasionally ask field recordists about THEIR iconic sounds of the northwest. Today, we hear from Gordon Hempton, also known as the Sound Tracker.

He sent us a recording of snow melting on Hurricane Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula. 

GUEST: Gordon Hempton, acoustic ecologist and Emmy Award winning sound recordist 

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