Lake lake chelan mountain cascade mountains clouds pine trees landscape. Mountain painting cascades alpine wilderness pine trees misty mountains watercolor trees pacific northwest north cascades trees add to favorites add this item to a list. After we a quick stop at the roundabout we continued south past big lake. In july 1959 ardis and philip hyde drove their covered wagon pickup leisurely through oregon and washington past seattle into the north cascades mountain range cascade pass was closed but stevens pass proved nearly as direct to lake chelanafter arrival at lake chelan ardis and philip woke up about 500 am on july 9 to arrange their gear and catch the lady of the lake a small. Its not just me of course my east coast friends and family were surprised to see how different the landscape changes on the drive from seattle to chelan in july from low hung gloomy rain clouds to pristine mountains dense with lichen pine trees to the mighty columbia river.
Being from the east coast im not used to the wavy brown mountains of the high desert in eastern washington.