College.īill loved music, beginning with listening to Wagner’s “Flying Dutchman” at home with his father. And he continued his teaching on the slopes of Snoqualmie Summit, encouraging students to love the outdoors via Nordic skiing classes for SAAS and North Seattle Comm.
More recently, he led canoe trips for several years to Lake Ozette as popular fundraisers for the Center for Wooden Boats, replete with good whiskey and gourmet fare. It was frequently the boys’ first experience as outdoorsmen and often led to an enduring relationship with nature. In all his careers, he involved the outdoors, establishing and maintaining outing clubs for the boys he taught, extending their appreciation of nature and literature reciting Walden and the Odyssey on hikes and snowshoe trips through the White Mountains and Presidential Range. But the qualities which most endeared him to others were his genuine interest in and respect for others, and his ability to convey this with warmth and sincerity. He took up a third career as weather journalist and wrote for 20 years for the Methow Valley News where he made his second home in Winthrop, buying a place where he “could ski out the front door.”įrom his youth Bill loved the outdoors and the mountains – hiking, snowshoeing, backpacking, skiing, canoeing, snakes and other creatures, trees and wildflowers – all were embraced with zest and vigor, qualities which became his trademark. Then he worked for the National Park Service, including a time at City of Rocks in southern Idaho. Beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather, friend, and teacher, William Whelan Biddle, died peacefully June 7, 2012.īorn May 13, 1930, to Alice and Craig Biddle, Bill was raised on the Philadelphia Main Line, and always romanticized about being “out West.” After successful stints teaching in Boston and New Hampshire, he came west to Seattle in 1982 and continued his teaching.
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