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6 unusual facts about Cascade Range


Barry De Vorzon

De Vorzon wrote "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" for the Cascades, but the group did not record it.

Douglas Ranges

Southeast across the Fraser River is the Canadian portion of the Cascade Range.

Harvard Mountaineering Club

Summer trips to Yosemite, the Palisades, the Italian Dolomites, and Cascades, have helped strengthen and train a new generation of climbers.

Stephen L. Harris

Harris grew up in western Washington state where the views of Mount Rainier inspired what has become a lifelong interest in the eruptive potential of the volcanoes in the Cascade Mountain range.

Swainson's Thrush

Subspecies Cathartus ustulatus alame and C. u. swainsoni summer east of the British Columbian Coast Mountains, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada, and C. u. ustulatus and C. u. oedicus summer west of these ranges.

Tolt pipeline

The Tolt pipeline runs from Tolt Reservoir in the Cascade Range to the City of Seattle, supplying the city with about 30% of its water supply.


Anemone drummondii

This is a plant of mountainous environments such as the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, extending from the coniferous forests to alpine elevations.

Boundary County Airport

On September 30, 2009 Colton Harris-Moore broke into and stole a Cessna 182 Turbo aircraft from Boundary County Airport, navigating over the high west ridge and westward through Washington state, over and across the Cascade Mountains and finally crash-landing outside of Granite Falls, Washington.

Cascadia subduction zone

The Cascadia subduction zone (also referred to as the Cascadia fault) is a subduction zone, a type of convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern California.

Central Washington

Generally, the western edge is the Cascade Range and the eastern edge is in the vicinity of the 119th meridian west, however there is no universally agreed upon definition for the extent of Central Washington.

Council Crest Park

Although the observation tower erected in 1907 was dismantled in 1941, the city later built an observation area in the park from which it is possible to see Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range.

Eliza Barchus

Traveling extensively in the Western United States from the 1890s through about 1920, she painted Cascade Range volcanoes such as Three Sisters, Mount Shasta, and Crater Lake; the Columbia River Gorge; Yellowstone Falls; Half Dome in Yosemite National Park; San Francisco Bay; Muir Glacier in Alaska, and hundreds of other spots.

Iris macrosiphon

Iris macrosiphon (Bowltube Iris) is a flowering plant in the iris family, endemic to California in the Cascade Range Foothills, north and central Sierra Nevada Foothills, Inner North Coast Ranges, and San Francisco Bay Area, where it occurs in sunny grasslands, meadows, and open woodlands.

Lasionycta sasquatch

It is found in the Washington Cascades south of Snoqualmie Pass, Saddle Mountain in the Oregon Coast Range, and the Siskiyou Mountains in south-western Oregon.

Oregon Route 58

By the 1850s, Emigrant Pass, slightly south of OR 58's crossing at Willamette Pass, was being used by emigrants to the Oregon Territory as a way over the Cascades.

Pine pitch canker

Scientists fear that the disease will spread to the Sierra Nevada, Coast, and Cascade mountain ranges.

Pinus contorta

murrayana — Tamarack pine, or Sierra lodgepole pine; Cascade Ranges from Washington into Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges of Southern California (including the San Bernardino Mountains), the Peninsular Ranges into northern Baja California, and the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

Reno Air Defense Sector

ReADS was established in February 1959 assuming control of former ADC Western Air Defense Force units in Nevada, most of Oregon east of the Cascade Range; southwestern Idaho and areas of California east of the Sierra Nevada and the northern Central Valley.

Robert William Wood

Wood was at the peak of his fame in the 1950s through 1970s when his scenes of the Catskill Mountains in New York, the California coast, the Grand Tetons, the Rocky Mountains, the Texas Hill Country and the Cascades were most popular.

Suncadia, Washington

It is located approximately 80 miles (130 km) east of Seattle in the Cascade Mountains between Roslyn, Cle Elum, and the Mountains to Sound Greenway section of Interstate 90.

Thomas Mercer

On this trip, Mrs. Mercer fell ill in The Dalles and died in the Cascade Range, leaving a bereaved husband and four small children, the eldest being not quite 14.

Western white pine

The United States Forest Service estimates that 90% of the Western white pines have been killed by the blister rust west of the Cascades.


see also

Olympian Hiawatha

While the Milwaukee Road promoted the Olympian Hiawatha and its scenic route through Idaho and Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the Cascade range in Washington, the railroad competed with the Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific Railway's North Coast Limited and the growing airlines.

Pacific Ranges

A high rate of sedimentation from the outflow of the three major rivers (Fraser River, Columbia River, and Klamath River) which cross the Cascade Range contributes to further obscuring the presence of a trench.

Tehama

Mount Tehama, a now-destroyed volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California