Journey Home, the Trench, Fraser River, West of the Straight Creek-Fraser River Fault (washingtonlandscape.blockspot.com) I previously noted the Rocky Mountain Trench while returning home from a previous trip this past year (rocky-mountain-trench-rivers). With fog in the Trench and the valleys and snow on covering the high ground above tree line the view was enhanced as I flew over the Trench.
Analysis of the fossils and the rock’s minerals [of the Leschi Park erratic] shows it may have come from the Nooksack Group near Mount Baker, or from the Harrison Lake area of southern British Columbia.
James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1795, in a log cabin in Pineville, North Carolina. He was the first of 10 children born into a family of farmers.