A CHALLENGE FOR NO OTHER WOMAN

 

100 DAYS

20,598 MILES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 11, 2005

 

View from Highway 14 overlooking the Columbia River.  This was a spot that Lewis and Clark stood surveying the land around them and the river below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View of Interstate 84 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 11, 2005

 

Mt. Adam as seen from Highway 97 heading north.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 12, 2005

 

Chinook Pass, Highway 410 into Mt. Rainier National Park.  The pass was beautiful but very narrow and at one point one side of the road was gone in a landslide.  You can see in this photo where the landslide happened.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wildflowers clinging to the side of the Chinook Pass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mt. Rainier.

 

There was too much cloud cover to get a good clear picture of Mt. Rainier but every now and then I would get a peek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A river at the base of Mt. Rainier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another brief peek of Mt. Rainier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 13, 2005

Mt. Saint Helens, Washington

Mile 12,047

 

I could not resist feeding the begging critters my corn nuts.  As soon as I pulled into the lookout this beggar came right up to my motorcycle and stood up on his tiny hind legs.  He had me pegged immediately as a sure bet for something to eat.

 

Mt. St. Helens is in the background in the clouds.  The forest was just beginning to return after 20 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The road back to Spirit Lake through the devastation caused by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty years of new growth after the blast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quick glimpse of Mt. St. Helens as the clouds parted.  I could see where the new cone was forming just before the clouds covered the mountain again.