NW Explorer » Rivers http://NWExplorer.net Pacific Northwest Travel, Tourism, and Events Blog Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:14:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Wild and Scenic Klickitat River http://NWExplorer.net/articles/about-wa/klickitat-rive/ http://NWExplorer.net/articles/about-wa/klickitat-rive/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:11:57 +0000 Will http://NWExplorer.net/?p=5 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.

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