slgwv's photos with the keyword: Steamboat Rock

Banks Lake as seen looking north from the west side of Steamboat Rock. Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington state. For more about Banks Lake see the album notes.

Mule deer doe losing her winter coat. She also looks a bit gaunt--it was a long winter! Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington state, USA. The gray-green shrub around is sagebrush.

Zonotrichia leucophrys. Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington state, USA. Apparently one of the commonest songbirds in North America.

Looking east from the top of Steamboat Rock toward Northrup Point. Here the Grand Coulee is cut into the granite bedrock below the Columbia River basalts, which form the dark, flat caprock. See adjacent photo for more about Banks Lake. The highway running along the shore on the far side is Washington SR 155.

Looking south along the Grand Coulee from the top of Steamboat Rock. Steamboat Rock State Park, Washington state, USA. Banks Lake is doubly artificial: it's formed by dams at either end of the upper Grand Coulee (above Dry Falls and above Grand Coulee Dam), and is filled by water pumped up from the Columbia River by Grand Coulee Dam! "Coulee", btw, is a localism for a flat-bottomed canyon with steep sides.