THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST

The north pacific coast; it is cold, clear mountain streams. The destination: a rugged, unused coastline where precipitous, fog-enshrouded cliffs rise out of pounding surf. Mountains are visible from the distance, covered with snow. Tall needleleaf evergreens cover the land between with a mantle of green. Cities, where they exist, give the impression that they are new. This is America's North Pacific Coast, mostly called, the Pacific Northwest. The coastal zone that stretches from northern California through coastal Canada to southern Alaska. Mount McKinnely has 6200 feet in elevation, making it the highest peak in North America. California's highest peak is Mount Whitney which has 14,505 feet in elevation. It is located at the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, just 84.6 miles (136.2 km) west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at Badwater in Death Valley National Park (282 feet (86 m) below sea level). In northern CA and southern Oregon, the Klamath Mountains offer is a product of Plesistoscene glaciation and Stream erosion.

MOUNT WHITNEY

Level III ecoregions in the Pacific Northwest. The Klamath Mountains (78) borders the Coast Range (1), Willamette Valley (3), Cascades (4), Sierra Nevada (5), Southern and Central California Chaparral and Oak Woodlands (6), and Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills (9) ecoregions.