from "Compelling Landscapes" presenting Gallery 34... Destination Washington
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3 pointed Cathedral Spires Mt Index Snoqualmie National Forest ... |
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Central Washington Cascades ©0912 Mt Index in Snoqualmie National Forest |
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Washington Rivers Slim Panorama ©0909 Longview on the Columbia River |
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Washington Rivers Slim Panorama ©0891 Apple Orchards on the Columbia River |
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Washington Cascades ©0893 Orchards on the Wenatchee River |
Central Washington ©0663 Gleed in Naches Valley |
Washington River Pictures ©0897 Rock Island Dam - Chelan WA |
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| ©0896 Pear Blossoms in Leavenworth | ©0898 Willows in the Columbia-Rock Island |
Central Washington
©0900 The Wenatchee River |
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Hwy 97 to Wenatchee ©0901 Hidden Valley |
Snoqualmie NF ©0637 NW Railway Museum |
Tieton River ©0665 Tieton Diversion Dam |
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Wenatchee National Forest ©0666 Wild Tieton River |
Snoqualmie National Forest ©0635 Snoqualmie Museum |
Wenatchee National Forest ©0664 Rimrock Lake |
This Gallery is central Washington, teasing the viewer with idyllic open spaces, but it is also demonstrating powerful rivers that wildly race down the Cascades. The Tieton River, captured by the Tieton Diversion Dam, creates Rimrock lake. This river has been irrigating the Naches and Yakima Valleys since 1917.
Orchard fruits including apples, often packed in containers made in Longview, are enroute to buyers via the Columbia River One of the dams on the Columbia River, the Rock Island Dam, provides electric power for Chelan County as well as aiding boat travel with its navigational locks. Graceful Willows reflect in "open water" drawn from the Columbia. Orchards continue to line the Columbia River well past Wenatchee.
West of the Columbia,
orchards of Leavenworth pears are among
those that feed from the Wenatchee River.
The Wenatchee River Valley leads to the
mountains of the Wenatchee National Forest on the East side of the
Cascades.
One crosses the Cascades at
Stevens Pass to reach the Snoqualmie National Forest. Suddenly... there
are the cathedral spires of the most unique peak of the Central
Cascades, showy Mount Index.
Tucked in the Snoqualmie NF is a Historical Museum and the very active Northwest Railway Museum teaching visitors about Washington's life today and yesterday.
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