Sunday, June 22, 2008

Wash. state's record snowpack brings waterfalls

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on the spectacular season for waterfalls this summer due to a record winter snowfall.

Around 10,000 waterfalls will spew forth from the Cascades.

Waterfall watchers say this year will beat the last record season of 1999.

And intrepid "baggers" are happy to go off the beaten path for remote sightings:
"Oh, it's stunningly beautiful," says Sprague Ackley of Seattle, a climber and whitewater kayaker who reached Service Falls [located] in a high and remote canyon on the upper Queets River in the heart of Olympic National Park."
Read the full story: The land of 10,000 waterfalls

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