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Here’s where you can snowshoe, hike an island, blow glass and shuck oysters – all in the same day

Tacoma, Washington’s latitudinal position is so far north that there can be upwards of 16 hours of daylight in the summertime. CNN’s Derek Van Dam set out to pack in as many Pacific Northwest activities in a single day – from snowshoeing on a volcano to shucking oysters in the Puget Sound.

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