Pacific Northwesterners!!

All is good, I think -- thanks! This could be very cool!

Great thread!

Here are a few of my favs in Washington...

Second Beach, which is near La Push, just west of Forks on the Washington coast.

OK, I got this on the Map:

Multnomah Falls, this taken last winter:

so how about this. I'll post the address & the photos and someone else can attach it to the map? I'm just not getting this.

Permagrin wrote in post #9729541
so how about this. I'll post the address & the photos and someone else can attach it to the map? I'm just not getting this.

Heh! That's fine, Lisa as long as you do it reasonably slowly!

It's not hard -- did you join Google Maps?

Okay, I added Picture Lake, Second Beach, and Snoqualmie Falls to the map.

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #9729626
Okay, I added Picture Lake, Second Beach, and Snoqualmie Falls to the map.

Nice thanks! I was hoping to get it to it in a bit, i'm just being lazy at work =)

On the map:

Larch Mountain OR, which is near the town of Corbett above the Columbia River, offers a full view of Mount Hood and more.

On the map, but no pictures: Indian Heaven Wilderness, nestled between Mount St, Helens and Mount Adams -- a day hike up into spectalar sceneries and mountain views.

Larch Mountain view of Mount Hood, from the road:

I forgot to mention that you can also see Mount Rainier from the top of Larch Mountain.

To put the above hazy shot in perspective, here is the scene of the northern view with St. Helens, Rainier, and Mt Adams from the left taken at 28mm with a 5D rather than 340mm:

Started editing the map for the Seattle area, still at work so will do much more tonight.

normally, I wouldn't post a bunch of photos for one location, but this area has several different attractions, far apart, so I'm posting some (pretty lousy:lol shots of the area

Opal Creek wilderness area
http://www.opalcreek.o​rg/

It's a 3.5 mile hike in & the same back out (no driving) but it's not a terrible hike.


On the way you'll see the opal creek mine (no photos)

the innards of the battleship Oregon (this is just one shot of the many pieces scattered near the old sawmill)

Three more points on the map, around Mount St. Helens:

Mount St. Helens has two approaches for a reasonably close view of the crater: a road running north/south on the east side through Gifford Pinchot Forest on the east side of the mountain has a forest road that takes you to the Windy Ridge viewpoint not far from the mountain where, surrounded by the desolation of nearly 30 years ago you get a decent partial view of the crater and the surrounding area to the east.

To the northwest, Highway 504 runs from Castle Rock, on Hwy I-5, to the Johnston Ridge Observatory (and viewpoint and trailhead) about 5 miles from the center of the crater -- farther than Windy Ridge but with a better frontal view.

Both trips are great! Such a lesson in the awesome power of nature!

Here are a few from a Windy Ridge trip:

The approach -- you can occasionally see glimpses of the Mountain in the distance ( haven't done any post-processing on these since the early days in '07):

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I put it there.

Whew, there's been a lot of markers put down in the last few hours. This was a great idea. I hope some of the other regions can do something similar so we can use their map for traveling.

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #9730222
I put it there.

thanks Mark