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Foggy Peak is located in the North Cascades four miles (6.4 km) southeast of Barlow Pass and immediately northeast of the historic Monte Cristo townsite. It is set within the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness on land administered by the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Sauk ...
Hoh Rainforest. Coordinates: 47°51′41.2″N 123°55′28.8″W. Bigleaf maples in the Hoh Rainforest. Hoh Rainforest is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the U.S., located on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state. [1] It includes 24 miles (39 km) of low elevation forest 394 to 2,493 feet (120 to 760 m) along the Hoh River.
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape ...
Temperate rainforest. Western hemlock rainforest, Gwaii Haanas, Canada. Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain. Temperate rainforests occur in oceanic moist regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rainforests of North American Pacific Northwest ...
The point of the cape is located on the Pacific Ocean in Washington's Pacific County, approximately two miles (3.2 km) southwest of the town of Ilwaco. [1] Cape Disappointment sees about 2,552 hours of fog a year—the equivalent of 106 days—making it one of the foggiest places in the U.S. [ citation needed ]
Weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Cascade Mountains. As fronts approach the North Cascades, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the Cascades. As a result, the west side of the North Cascades experiences higher ...
Blanchard State Forest. Skagit County. Snohomish County. Capitol State Forest. Grays Harbor County. Elbe Hills-Tahoma State Forest. Lewis County. Pierce County. Green Mountain-Tahuya State Forest.
Yellow Aster Butte is a 6,241-foot (1,902-metre) Skagit Range summit located three miles south of the Canada–United States border, in Whatcom County of Washington state. [3] It is situated within the Mount Baker Wilderness , on land managed by Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest .