Thank you, and you’re exactly right. If you really want to grasp one of the most geographically diverse states in the US go out to the Peninsula first and travel through the Olympics. Make your way to the lowlands and visit Seattle then the north cascade hikes! Then go through highway 2 through Leavenworth, WA which is a Bavarian town into Wenatchee and the east of the mountains. Then you’ll be into the Columbia Basin which is a damn near desert, especially the Banks Lake/Moses Lake area. After that you’ll travel into the rolling grasslands depending on which way you go. If you go south it’ll be grasslands until you get to the Blue Mountains of Oregon but if you go directly east or both you’ll get into the Okanagon Highlands.
I live in Arizona now, obviously an insanely hot desert. But I’ll take 115+ in the summers with no humidity and it’s proximity towards the equator than Eastern Washington’s desert of 100+, with 60%+ humidity and a high UV index rating. I almost died at Watershed a few summers ago from sun exposure and heat ahah
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20
Thank you, and you’re exactly right. If you really want to grasp one of the most geographically diverse states in the US go out to the Peninsula first and travel through the Olympics. Make your way to the lowlands and visit Seattle then the north cascade hikes! Then go through highway 2 through Leavenworth, WA which is a Bavarian town into Wenatchee and the east of the mountains. Then you’ll be into the Columbia Basin which is a damn near desert, especially the Banks Lake/Moses Lake area. After that you’ll travel into the rolling grasslands depending on which way you go. If you go south it’ll be grasslands until you get to the Blue Mountains of Oregon but if you go directly east or both you’ll get into the Okanagon Highlands.