Vasquez Rocks, Southern California is the site of numerous movie and commercial projects… Famously as a location where Star Trek’s Captain Kirk battled the Gorn to save his crew. You can purchase prints of these here.
Mountains
47 photos. It was cold… 5ºF down to -16ºF… I drove up to where the road is closed for the winter on the North Cascades Highway and spent 3 days at the Mazama Country Inn.
All these shots are in the vicinity of Franklin Falls (above and below)… near the top of Snoqualmie Pass where the river starts.
I wonder how many people driving west on I-90 know they literally drive over the top of a waterfall?
Blewett Pass and Icicle River near Leavenworth, WA were the preferred areas.
Just after it opened in 2015 (quite early, April 9th). Then the next day they got 10 plus inches of snow.
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA
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- West of Darrington, WA. whitehorse meadow is the name…
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- Whitehorse Mountain, Darrington, WA
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- Whitehorse Mountain, Darrington, WA
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- Whitehorse Mountain, Darrington, WA
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- Whitehorse Mountain, Darrington, WA
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- View of Whitehorse Mountain from the Shell station in downtown Darrington, WA
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- Darrington friendly ball playing dog.
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Along Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Skagit River at Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Skagit River at Highway 20 milepost 114
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- Two large trees guarding the shore of the Skagit river along Highway 20 at the Goodell Creek Raft Launch.
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- Large trees guarding the shore of the Skagit river along Highway 20 at the Goodell Creek Raft Launch.
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- Along Highway 20 near the top on the West side.
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- Along Highway 20 near the top on the West side.
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- Angry Duck Cloud formation Along Highway 20 near the top on the West side.
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- Along Highway 20 near the top on the West side. Viewpoint of Ross Lake.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Along Highway 20 at the top at Washington Pass area.
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA… Ed is showing signs of loneliness…
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Winthrop, WA… miner with an ice cream cone
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- Winthrop, WA… They have washroom attendants here…
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- Winthrop, WA
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee. Columbia River.
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee.
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee.
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee.
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee.
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- Highway 97 north of Wenatchee.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
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- Fruit orchard in bloom near Cashmere, WA at sunset.
Back in July of 1977 I and my fiancé sailed and powered my 28 foot Ranger sailboat up to Princess Louisa Inlet from Lake Union in Seattle. We were gone 4 or 5 weeks maybe more? I’ll have to look that up again. I always wanted to return but never could find the time again. After the divorce in 2000 I bought a Ranger 33 sailboat…. but alas it’s old engine was just not up to the trip… Then I had a stroke and now will have to sell the boat because I can hardly run it any more…
So, because this has been on my bucket list for a long time… I paid for one of those tourist rides up to the inlet from where the road ends in Egmont, BC… making the trip at 25+ miles per hour…
It was September 2013 and the weather looked pretty bad with massive clouds, fog, and rain. But, in retrospect I liked this kind of weather better than July of 1977. 2013 was nasty. July of 1977 was perfect blue sky and warm for the whole trip except one day in Garden Bay where it rained like I had never seen before… We were soaking wet… inside the boat even. But it was 70 degrees.
So these photos are from the September 2013 trip… Nice drama in those clouds. But the real bonus was we saw waterfalls no one had seen in years… dozens of them everywhere… I will post the 1977 photos in another post when I get the Kodachrome film scanned and processed.
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- Soda Creek, Princess Royal Reach
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- Jervis Inlet
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- Soda Creek, Princess Royal Reach
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- Osgood Creek Princess Royal Reach
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- cove at Osgood Creek outflow Princess royal Reach
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- Osgood Creek outflow Princess Royal Reach
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- “False Patrick Point” Princess Royal Reach
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- pictographs at False Patrick Point Princess Royal Reach The red markings are ancient paintings.
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- Bear Bay Princess Royal Reach
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- Malibu at the entrance to Princess Louisa Inlet.
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet… MacDonald island
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet
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- Loquilts Creek and Chatterbox Falls Princess Louisa Marine Park
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- Inside Princess Louisa Inlet. Chatterbox Falls is behind me.
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- Trail to chatterbox Falls.
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- Tour boat out in front of the Chatterbox Falls.
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- Chatterbox Falls is behind me.
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- Trail to chatterbox Falls.
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- Loquilts Creek Princess Louisa Marine Park
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- looking down Princess Louisa Inlet past a shoulder of Mt Albert with Mt Arthur in the distance
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- Inside the inlet
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- Waterfalls inside Princess Luisa Inlet
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- “Old Man’s Beard” in temperate rainforest Princess Louisa Inlet
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- Chatterbox Falls
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- Chatterbox Falls at full force.
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- Chatterbox Falls at the bottom of Loquilts Creek (pretty impressive flow!)
I had never been to this part of Washington before. I bet a lot of Washingtonians have not… most of the cars I saw had Oregon plates.
It was just days before snow closed the roads in mid November… had just rained like heck and every waterfall was bursting…. perfect! and no people to run me off the road like summer time… except hunters… Gotta watch where they are doing there thing… They will shoot anything that moves. I am certain I look like a moose or bear or something.
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- Bridge on Cedar Creek next to Grist Mill
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- The flume for the power wheel water at the grist MIl.
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- People in Kayaks love jumping over this Falls.
