downstream on the Skagit River
- Richard Nixon (allthetropes.org)
The thirty-seventh President of the United States, and probably the most hated former president in U.S. history before politics polarized in the early 2000s (only Herbert Hoover is competition), Richard Milhous Nixon remains the standard-bearer as being the embodiment of the corrupt president. If President Corrupt shows up in fiction, there will probably be allusions to this guy.
upstream on the Skagit River
- Ross Lake (Washington) (Wikipedia)
Ross Lake is a large reservoir in the North Cascade mountains of northern Washington state, United States, and southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The lake runs approximately north–south, is 23 miles (37 km) long, up to 1.5 miles (2.5 km) wide, and the full reservoir elevation is 1,604 feet above sea level (489 m).