I get this as I always preferred Jeff… but Beau got more attention in the early 70s…

It was actually quite a big deal. Dad was the corporal with the high security clearance who sat with the guys with the keys on the late shift. He only recently started talking about it - took that 50 year NDA seriously. I am learning some stuff. Sounds like your family knows some stuff too!

this is exactly right.

Anyone besides me old enough to remember when Beau was the heartthrob but then Jeff aged better?

You’ll have that there

They really are!

Washington has everything and most ppl don’t even know it.. Heck, I was born on Larsen AFB in early 60s and grew up there! I remember my parents showing me the ginkgo trees and petrified wood in eastern Washington when I was young…. I remember the isolation of the dry hills around Vantage, from a band trip from rural western WA to Pullman…. I remember the Potholes and how weird they looked to a 4 yo… I remember the amazing beauty of the Sunrise side at Mount Rainier and hiking on the base of Mowich Glacier with my dad when I was 7ish… I remember flying a kite with him at Dungeness hook for HOURS…. I remember Mount Baker on super clear days driving up to my Grandpa’s in Snohomish…. and the tulip fields up the Skagit on drive to Gramma’s in Mt. Vernon…. Sitting my Grandpa’s shoulders at the 4th of July parade in Everett and then another time in Leavenworth… the beauty of skiing up at Snoqualmie when it was a backwater…. And then visiting in 2017 and seeing Hurricane Ridge in the sunshine for the first time in my life! I got to work as a forest fire guard south of Snoqualmie Pass for 3 summers… just took all that life up near and at the crest for granted back then…. Its amazing. My dad’s little acre out there still is a thing of rainforest wonder to me!

ETA I didn’t mean to write a book… but I moved to Chicago when I was 18 and now live in OH… the things I took for granted (views of Rainier from where I grew up on a sunny day for instance) are not overstated - last November I was back there and driving from Airport area east to my dad’s… had a shot of Rainier in the early sunlight (and in NOVEMBER!)…. And I used to see it out the window of my school bus…. Didn’t think twice…. I pulled over to take a picture because now I know most people don’t have a Mount Rainier view from their school bus.

I was there as a kid not old enough to appreciate it - so beautiful

Thanks kind Redditor! I’ve walked through the Black River Riparian area a few times, https://www.rentonwa.gov/cms/One.aspx?pageId=8838326&portalId=7922741 when I’ve visited my dad - its beautiful…. The story though is sad…. there were Natives in the area who lost their whole food supply…. their lives and their heritage were destroyed.

I went to the Worlds Fair in 1974. I was born in Moses Lake, WA… I mot definitely know where Spokane is!!!

I actually talked about the Black River as part of the Duwamish system in a different comment on this Map’s thread…. It was absolutely devastating to the natives.

Historically, The White actually was the key river in the old Duwamish system.. like instead of the Green flowing into the Duwamish, the river was called the White. a flood actually changed the course of the White and pushed it into the Puyallup…

I grew up on the Cedar in Maple Valley and then got to work on the Watershed for three summers as a young woman…. The Cedar used to flow into the Black, and the Black also drained Lake Washington…. and all of it flowed into the Green/White over by SouthCenter, and it all flowed into the Duwamish….

when I was a kid in the 70s we had a “visit WA” ad that said something like “Visit Washington (the State!)

Cedar is north of the Green… IIRC, the White used to flow into the green and was called the White as it flowed into Duwamish… but a flood changed that… here is the story… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_(Puyallup_River)

Used to work on Cedar Watershed, River valley was an old trail up to Yakima Pass… which is lower than Snoqualmie and on the Watershed fwiw. Story is (was?) that it was a pretty well used route…. grew up less than a mile west of the Old Milwaukee Road track along the River too.

So Lake WA used to drain through the Black River to the Green and so to the Duwamish…. The Cedar flowed into the Black… Today, the BOEING runway in Renton is the old Black River bed…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_River_(Duwamish_River_tributary). The story is both sad and interesting IMHO, but when they built the ship canal, it dropped the water Level in Lake WA and the Black River mostly dried up… there are remnants….

Stalakwamish River! That’s prolly a better spelling that Stillaguammish!

Have seen them growing on Doug Firs ESE of Seattle where I grew up! Its amazing isn’t it!

I did not know that…. Thank you! I love Greenwater… feel like it was the touch point for knowing I was “in the mountains” since I was 4.

I grew up there. Was visiting last weekend and saw the Mountain every day! Odd to see Rainier in November, but such a happy thing!

Three Sisters are in Central Oregon - you can’t see them from Maple Valley, WA. I actually grew up in Maple Valley….