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Keith's travels in the Pacific Northwest - September-October 2007
Three years ago, Keith took his then fairly new Canon 1Ds on a driving tour round the Rockies in the USA. This photo-diary covers a driving trip starting at Seattle, Washington in September/October 2007. There are also photo-journals on this site covering an earlier trip to some of the area, but starting at San Francisco. There is also an article on a trip to Colorado
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The weather isn't at its best, but I do enjoy driving along the Pacific coast. These pages will have a few of my pictures along the way. I'm not on my own this time so I'll probably not be keeping quite the detailed notes I usually do... :-)
It's a great place for a vacation, or just a road trip up the Pacific coast to photograph some of the scenery. If you've any questions about the hotels/inns/motels where I stayed, then please do feel free to drop me a line.
Ok, just travelling today...
Flying out to Seattle via Chicago, so the first leg of the trip went over the tip of Greenland
However, before even getting on the the plane I discovered new parts of the Heathrow departure lounge
Here's Karen (who I'm travelling with this time) checking out the duty free...
Anyway, having stocked up with Malt Whisky for the trip, off we went...
What you can see of Greenland, looks pretty mountainous.
This from 40,000 feet
While there was plenty of room on the flight to Chicago, the one to Seattle was pretty packed
However, it was clear most of the way across the States, and we managed to get photos of one of my favourite mountain ranges (from 38,000 feet).
The mountains to the right of Jackson lake are the Tetons.
Why one of my favourite mountain chains? From the ground they look like this
I was going to use a less cloudy example, but since I've only got the pictures on my laptop, this will have to do ;-)
Here's a slightly better view, giving a feel for the topography of the area
Finally there's this view of the 'back' of the Tetons for my friend Vicky, who's only seen them from the front (the side with the pointy bits)
So on to Seattle, crossing numerous hilly bits, and these two river valleys, that could be straight out of a geomorphology textbook.
Near to Seattle, there's this rather excellent volcano.
Mt. Rainier at ~14,000 feet is impressive. Note the other volcanoes in the distance (Mt. St Helens to the right)
A quick flight over Seattle
And a look down towards Tacoma, with that huge volcano in the background (it will make a big mess of this area when it goes off)
That's it for today, since it's been a long one
Just to finish off, here's the car parked outside the motel...
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