VFYW: A Scenic School With A Nude Beach

For contest #280, we find ourselves back in the Pacific Northwest but in a much bigger city.

A reader sees:

a city ... teeming with pine tress … near mountains. I guess: Seattle, Washington. I’m curious what other clues folks will find.

Another reader also guesses Seattle, specifically South Lake Union:

This is looking east at the Tommy Bahama building, I would guess around Harrison and 9th. I used to visit a company housed in that building once a…