Day 9 (Sunday, June 12, 2005), Pendleton, Oregon to Seattle

   

 

 

Breaking camp at Pendleton...

 

 

Through Pendleton and by the Round-Up...

 

     

 

 

 

Proceeding on across the basalt plateau of northeast Oregon...

 

     

 

 

 

Echo, Oregon...

 

       

 

   

 

 

 

The Covered Wagon Museum at Echo...

       

 

   

 

 

 

Umatilla, Oregon, on the Columbia River where the mighty Umatilla Rapids once gushed...

 

     

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNary_Dam

 

www.ccrh.org/comm/umatilla/columbia2.htm

 

 

Crossing the Columbia River at Umatilla into Washington State...

 

       

 

 

 

Tri-Cities, Washington... Pasco...

 

     

 

 

 

Sacajawea State Park near Pasco, at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers. My timing was perfect, as the Lewis & Clark Bluegrass Festival was in session...

 

       

 

 

 

 

I listened to the Sawtooth Mountain Boys warm-up on the banks of the Snake River...

 

       

 

 

 

Around the festival...

 

       

 

     

 

 

 

Westward from Tri-Cities along the Yakima Valley and the Rattlesnake Hills of eastern Washington...

 

       

 

 

 

Yakima, Washington...

 

     

 

 

 

Up the Yakima Canyon towards Ellensburg...

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

 

At the north end of Yakima Canyon the snowcapped Cascade Mountains come into view. Seattle lies beyond these mountains...

 

 

Ellensburg, Washington...

       

 

 

 

Westward from Ellensburg and up the eastern slope of the Cascades...

 

 

The customary stop at The Brick, in Roslyn...

 

     

 

 

I crossed the Cascades at Snoqualmie Pass then headed down the western slope...

 

 

Mount Si, at North Bend, and Snoqualmie Falls... the western edge of greater Seattle...

 

       

 

 

 

Crossing Lake Washington on the I-90 Floating Bridge and in to Seattle...

 

       

 

 

 

The eastward part of this round trip, "The Big Drive," began back on March 20 form atop Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, so that is where I marked the end of the return journey...

 

 

Bigfoot's odometer was at 21,181 miles, making the return trip from Charlotte to Seattle a 3,621 mile jaunt...

 

minus equals 3,621 miles...