The snow-capped stratovolcano Mount Rainier is reflected at sunrise in Tipsoo Lake near Chinook Pass. After a catastrophic eruption about 6000 years ago, the volcano grew to its present dimensions 2500 years ago and has since been intensively reshaped by glaciers....
Elowah Falls of McCord Creek in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon plunges 65 m (213 ft) into a natural amphitheater of layered basalt, lichens and mosses. Despite the cataclysmic outpourings of flood basalts about 17 million years ago, the beautiful Columbia River...
Mount Shuksan is mirrored in Picture Lake in the North Cascades of Washington. In the last light of dusk, high cirrus clouds of an approaching low-pressure system illuminate the sky in deep pink. The wild and rugged North Cascades mountain range is also geologically...
The enchanted, moss-covered Lancaster Falls on Warren Creek in the Columbia River Gorge bring the barren volcanic basalt rocks to life. The Columbia River Gorge, with its picturesque temperate rainforest and fabulous waterfalls, cuts deeply into a vast deluge of...
Ruby Beach in Olympic fascinates with its impressive sea stacks and sand patterns illuminated by the backlight of the setting sun. The Pacific coastline of Washington is a tectonically very active region and is repeatedly struck by severe earthquakes and tsunamis. The...
