The mothership hovers over Seattle
Grand Coulee Dam. You check in to the Columbia River Inn, walk across the street to a park, and watch a laser light show tell the whole story of the river. Falling water makes a huge movie screen.
Anacortes
Gasworks Park, Seattle
In the state of Washington ferries are an important part of the state highway system.
Some really big sticks in Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington State. Admittedly, Cali has bigger ones.
Thirty miles east of Seattle on the front of my beloved Cascade mountains.
Mt. Erie
Grand Coulee Dam, in Washington State. You check in to the Columbia River Inn, walk across the street to a park, and watch a laser light show tell the whole story of the river. Falling water makes a huge movie screen.
Dash Point
West Point
This is the lighthouse from the 1991 “Hunger Strike” video by Temple of the Dog. I’m still in the Seattle city limits, but it’s a big empty green space that doesn’t make noise or smoke, and thus has infinite value.
San Juans
One-lane Fairfax Bridge, 250 feet over the Carbon River in Washington State, leading to the northwest corner of Mt. Rainier National Park. You get here you in the woods.
Westport
Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park in Washington State is a big honking 3,000 acres between Renton, Bellevue, and Issaquah with no roads, no apartments, no WalMarts, nothing but fifty miles of trails and good stuff.
Steptoe Butte on the Palouse in Washington State (a big beautiful quilt of alternating wheat and alfalfa fields). Fifteen miles away is Idaho under a rain squall.
Twin Falls, Washington
Moulton Falls Regional Park, near my hometown of Vancouver, Washington.
Silver Star Mt. near Vancouver, WA.
You see Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Adams. Behind you is Mt. Hood, Mt, Jefferson, the Three Sisters, the Coast Range, and all of Portland/Vancouver. This was my backyard. I know every road, every trail, every waterfall.
It looks higher than it is (4,390 feet) because it was denuded by the Yacolt Burn early in the 20th Century and many of the trees haven’t grown back. Rockslides removed the good soil. So you have a timberline situation some two thousand feet lower than it ought. But that makes for great views.
The Cascade front from Rattlesnake Ledge near North Bend, Washington
Terminal Cruise 