This past Sunday, I left my house intending to go on an hour jaunt around town, get out of the apartment for a while, and eventually make my way back to Safeway for a stock me up of groceries.
Too bad things didn’t end up that way.
A few hours later, I emerged from the beautiful grey cloud cover west of the Cascades andwas greated by the sun and sparesely beautiful high desert and farmland near Goldendale, WA . Not wanting to put in the extreme amount of time to head up to Yakima and through the White Pass – or wanting to explore further into southeast Washington – I decided to turn back onto State Route 142 and ended up being pretty much amazed at what I saw.
St. Route 142 meanders for several miles west of Goldendale through farm and ranch land, but you get about a mile or two past Blockhouse Butte and find the road descending sharply into a decently deep but rather narrow canyon or gorge carved out by the Klickitat River.
The next 15-20 miles are spent with me slackjawed at the sheer beauty of what I’m seeing.
About the Klickitat River
The Klickitat River feeds off of collossal Mt. Adams in southern Washington.