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Several days of below freezing temperatures have created an icy scene at Snoqualmie Falls where the spray from the falls have covered the rocks with frost and icicles.

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Dropping 620 feet from its origin on Larch Mountain, Multnomah Falls in the Columbia Gorge is the second-tallest year-round waterfall in the United States. The sheer cliffs on the Oregon side of the Columbia were carved by the Ice Age floods.

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As many as 100 ancient floods roaring through the Northwest at the end of the last Ice Age carved much of the landscape we see today, including Palouse Falls. Here, the Palouse River drops 198 feet before it enters the Snake River in Eastern Washington.

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Oregon's Crown Point at sunset, on the edge of the Columbia River Gorge.

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Wine country in the Yakima Valley, near Zillah.

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A hot-air balloon drifts in the evening breeze in front of Mount Baker and above the Skagit Valley.

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A mule-drawn wagon rides through Tulip Town, west of Mount Vernon in Skagit County.

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Looking north into the crater of the Mount St. Helens, a newly formed lava dome rises to the left of the the older lava dome. Rainier and Adams are in the distance.

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A helicopter carrying scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey is dwarfed by Mount St. Helens.

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Hanging baskets of flowers adorn a downtown street near the Dutch Village Inn in Lynden, Wash.

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Paddling across Diablo Lake on an August day.

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A bicycle holding flowers sits outside a bread shop in the village of Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island.

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Wheat near Ritzville, Wash.

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The Mukilteo lighthouse.

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Spanning the mighty Columbia River, the Astoria-Megler Bridge links the Oregon and Washington sections of the Pacific Coast Highway. This view is from the Astoria Column.

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Early-morning fog lifts near the Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinvillle.

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Wintry vines at the Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville.

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A sleigh ride in Leavenworth through meadows and along the Icicle River.

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04/14/09: With a fresh coating of April snow, the Ferry Tacoma arrives at Pier 52. Almost the entire Olympic Mountain Range was on display.

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03/12/2009: The lighthouse on the northern tip of Patos Island in the San Juans looks out on Boundary Pass, straddling the U.S.-Canada border, part of waters proposed to be named "Salish Sea."

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07/27/2008: Here Merchant Peak looms over Eagle Lake. At more than 3,800 feet of elevation, the snowmelt lake is the headwaters of Eagle Creek, part of the area's system of mountain lakes and streams that improve water quality and boost salmon populations throughout Puget Sound.

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7/21/2008: Wildflowers on the Johnson Ridge Trail in the Wild Sky Wilderness.