That summer, unprecedented snowmelt in the Sawtooth Range brought the Boise River flooding to the doorsteps of Garden City. The trunks of poplar trees and the backs of benches protruded from the high water, curious afterthoughts in a landscape submerged. “We were sitting on the grass right there a week ago, tripping on acid,” said […]
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Divine Static Across Cascadia
The road over the Cascades cut between steep slopes of evergreens—here healthy, there snags, trunks scorched with fire. Turkey vultures circled overhead as Snoqualmie Pass (during blizzard season, basically the Pass of Caradhras) went by like a radar blip. Abruptly the land flattened, the mountains gave way to steppe—the desert of Eastern Washington, thorn scrub […]