NW Passages Episode 7: The Good Rain Part 3

Notes by Northwest · Oct 1, 2022 · 2m

NW Passages is the new series features passages from books with a connection to the Pacific Northwest, and this month, we will feature selections from Timothy Egan’s classic book about the PNW, The Good Rain.

In this passage, Egan describes the remoteness of the Northern Cascades, where, until 1972, no proper roads transverse the lands. He goes on to quote a trapper who described the region as a land so wild, I cannot find words.

The reference to Winthrop in Egan’s passage may sound familiar. Winthrop was the east coast traveler who chronicled his journeys in the Washington Territory in 1853…