{"id":13000,"date":"2018-11-10T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13000"},"modified":"2018-11-10T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:18:41","slug":"washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently in Washington State, where we made several excursions to visit scenic areas. The state is separated into a western and eastern part by the Cascade mountains. Chelan is in the eastern part.<\/p>\n<p>Chelan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is a city around a long lake with low mountains all around<\/li>\n<li>we went up a road that was so rough it was labelled a &#8220;primitive road&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>you can see on some of the trees that there&#8217;s been a fire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stevens Pass<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is one of the ways to get from one side of the mountains to the other<\/li>\n<li>I saw a long horn sheep but I didn&#8217;t get a picture of it<\/li>\n<li>Leavenworth is a town completely designed to look like a Bavarian town<\/li>\n<li>the snow shed (the large structure built out of concrete) was to protect trains from an avalanche<\/li>\n<li>some trees in the forest are almost completely covered in moss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snoqualmie Falls<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is a waterfall that&#8217;s higher than Niagara Falls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mt. Baker<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is an absurdly scenic area with views of Mt. Baker, Mt. Shuksan, and several others<\/li>\n<li>we stopped at Puget Sound, the beginning of the ocean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Cascades<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we drove over the Diablo Dam<\/li>\n<li>we briefly stopped at Big Four, where we went hiking 2 years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mt. Rainier<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it was foggy and cloudy, so we only caught brief glimpses of the mountain<\/li>\n<li>the place with all the tree stumps is a river that&#8217;s almost completely dry<\/li>\n<li>we saw several waterfalls and 2 deer, 1 of whom was walking nonchalantly on the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some photos (give the slideshow a few seconds to start)&#8230;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently in Washington State, where we made several excursions to visit scenic areas. The state is separated into a western and eastern part by the Cascade mountains. Chelan is in the eastern part. Chelan this is a city around a long lake with low mountains all around we went up a road that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-13000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13000"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13252,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000\/revisions\/13252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}