Max and Char's Pacific Northwest Vacation

August 30, 2000. With less than 24 hours before we were scheduled to depart for our trip to Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, we decided to change our plans. The wildfires in those states looked bad, and seemed to be getting worse...quickly. So, we decided we'd tour the Pacific Northwest: Washington and Oregon. Despite the slightly haphazard nature of our route, and complete lack of planning, it worked out well. Here are about 100 of the best pictures. Click on the dates to see pages with more images.

These pictures were all taken with a Nikon 990 digital camera and the help of a few auxilliary lenses (wide angle and teleconverter) and filters (polarizer). The images have been resized to speed up download. The information shown on the web pages, and the pages themselves, were produced using Thumber, a program I wrote to create web-pages from digital camera pictures. None of the images have been modified or edited, other than resizing. I'm happy to get any comments at maxlyons@tawbaware.com.

August 19, 2000		Pictures from our drive across the desert in eastern Washington to Mount Rainier.
August 20, 2000		The first day in Mount Rainier National Park. Clouds covered the mountain all day.
August 21, 2000		A beautiful sunny day at Mount Rainier and some evening pictures from Mount St. Helens...20 years after the eruption, it still looks like a bomb just went off!
August 22, 2000		The coastline of North Oregon between Cape Lookout and Sunset Beach
August 23, 2000		Seattle: Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, the Space Needle, and views of Puget Sound and the city from Kerry Park.
August 24, 2000		Late afternoon and sunset at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park.
August 25, 2000		A few more pictures at Hurricane Ridge and some near Mount Baker.
August 26, 2000		Through the North Cascade mountains, across the desert, a quick stop at the Grand Coulee Dam and a beautiful sunset 60 miles west of Spokane.
Panorama. Here is a "bonus picture"...a panoramic shot of Mount Rainier created by stitching 5 individual pictures together using The Panorama Factory software. The larger version of this image is about 3000x1000 pixels and compressed to about 450KB, although the original is a 6000x2000 pixel image over 30MB in size.