"The Cascades run from Canada‘s British Columbia through the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon to Northern California"............"The range is 700 miles north-to-south and 80 miles east-to-west".............."The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington at 4,411 feet above sea level".............."Mt. Rainier is a large active volcano and is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world"..........."The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean"............."In early 1792, British navigator George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and named the mountains"............."In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the Cascades on the Columbia River"............"American settlement of the flanks of the Coast Range did not occur until the early 1840s".............."The Cascade mountain range is named for its waterfalls"..........."Multnomah Falls is located on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, the second tallest year-round waterfall in the United States"..........."Native Americans called the Cascades home and their legends speak of them as a refuge from a great flood as well as the mtns. as god-like chiefs who made war by throwing fire and stone at each other"".............."Black bears, coyotes, bobcats, cougars, foxes, beavers, porcupine, skunk, marmot, deer, elk, moose, mountain goats, and a few wolf packs returning from Canada live in the Cascades alongside 50 grizzly bears"

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THE GRANDEUR OF THE CASCADES