Cascade Range Gallery

At sunset the Crater Lake caldera in the Cascade Range in Oregon is enshrouded in the smoke of a wildfire ignited by lightning strike

Mount Rainier mirrors in Tipsoo Lake at sunrise. The volcano reached its present size about 2500 years ago and is intensively reshaped by glaciers

Elowah Falls of McCord Creek in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon freefalls 65 m into a natural amphitheater of moss-covered basalt

At dusk, Mount Shuksan mirrors in Picture Lake in the North Cascades with epic light of an approaching storm

The enchanted, moss-covered Lancaster Falls in Warren Creek of the Columbia River Gorge bring the barren volcanic basalt rocks to life

At Ruby Beach in Olympic, deep-sea sediments are welded against the continent as the ocean plate subsides beneath the continent

Along the Olympic coastline, the American continent is growing due to the amalgamation of islands arriving from the Pacific

Fairy Falls of Wahkeena Creek in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon cascades over mossy basalt with ferns concealing its cataclysmic past