- Nasty Creek (Wikipedia)
Nasty Creek is a stream located in the upper reach of the Ahtanum Creek watershed, in Yakima County, Washington, in the United States. The stream flows 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from its source near Foundation Ridge to its confluence with the North Fork of Ahtanum Creek.
- Although labeled as a mountain, Cowiche Mountain is a mountain ridge in Yakima County.
- Ayn Rand (Wikipedia)
Alice O’Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays.
Washington Trails Association
- Snow Mountain Ranch and Cowiche Mountain (wta.org)
Situated 12 miles west of Yakima, the Cowiche Conservancy’s Snow Mountain Ranch encompasses 2,000 acres with an elevation gain of over 1000 feet from the South Fork of Cowiche Creek to the summit of Cowiche Mountain (2,970 feet). Within the ranch the Conservancy maintains a system of approximately 14 miles of interconnected trails allowing access to the diverse habitat zones of the shrub-steppe.