RHH's photos with the keyword: mount adams

Also known as Pahto or Klickitat, Mount Adams is an active volcano in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, second in height only to Mount Rainier. This photo was taken from Highway 97 south of Goldendale.

Mount Adams is one of the many active stratovolcanos in the Cascades that form a chain reaching from British Columbia to California. It is the second highest mountain in the state of Washington after Mount Rainier but much more remote. This photo was taken from a turnoff along Highway 97 south of Goldendale and Brooks Memorial State Park and just before descending into the Columbia River Gorge. On our recent trip through Washington, Oregon and California we spent our first night in Blewett Pass south of Leavenworth, Washington, and spent some time in that area the next morning before traveling south through Yakima to the Columbia River Gorge. Before reaching the gorge we spent some time in Brooks Memorial State Park where we hunted for orchids and other wildflowers and did some hiking.

Coming up north out of the Columbia River gorge on State Highway 97 affords one of the best views of Mount Adams to be gotten anywhere. We stopped at a turnoff on the heights south of Goldendale and the Klickitat Valley for this photo. Mount Adams is one of five active volcanos in the Washington Cascades. The other four are Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, Glacier Peak and Mount Baker. Mount Adams, however, is so remote that it is almost impossible to get nearer without a heavy duty four-wheel drive vehicle and that over some of the worst roads I've ever been on.

Taken at a viewpoint on U.S. Route 97 south of Goldendale in Klickitat County, Washington, the photo shows Mount Adams, one of the active volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

Two weeks ago we went to Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams. We had planned on doing some hiking at Mount Saint Helens, but were in the middle of heat wave and decided against the hiking. Instead we did some sight-seeing by car in the area of Mount Saint Helens and went on to Mount Adams where we did some orchid hunting. We didn't find the rare orchid we were looking for but did find several others including the species shown in the other pictures I've posted.

These were photographed at Muddy Meadows on the north side of Mount Adams. We had been looking for the related but rarer species, the Northern Ladies'-Tresses (Spiranthes porrifolia), which we did not find, but did find this species. Published in the April, 2011, issue of Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society, in an article titled, "Taking Aim."

Photographed at Muddy Meadows in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest north of Mount Adams. Photographed by my wife.

These orchids are named Ladies-Tresses on account of the arrangement of the flowers which spiral around the stem giving a braided look to the flower spikes.

In Explore August 10, 2009, #434. Photograph taken by my wife. Mount Adams is one of a chain of active volcanos in the Cascade Range. In Washington these volcanos are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams.

A close-up of these jewel-like flowers. Photographed at Muddy Meadows in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Mount Adams.

Photographed near Lake Elizabeth in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the area of Skykomish, Washington. Keys to the identification of this species are the inflated spur and yellowish lip. This was published in the April, 2011, issue of Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society, in an article titled "Taking Aim."

Mount Adams is one of the active volcanoes in the North Cascades and lies between two other volcanoes, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Hood. It lies partly in the Yakima Indian Reservation and is very remote and difficult to access and therefore not as well known as Saint Helens, Rainier or Baker. This photo was taken from the east from Highway 95 in the Yakima Reservation and south of the city of Yakima.