Weeks Falls

downstream the South Fork Snoqualmie River

Weeks Falls (waterfallsnorthwest.com) Weeks Falls is the fourth of five major waterfalls along the South Fork Snoqualmie River. The river cascades down a jagged pitch, dropping 77 feet in a run of about 300 feet. Immediately above the falls is a small dam which diverts about ¾ of the river into a micro hydro facility, leaving the falls a shadow of their natural self for the majority of the year. A visit between January and May should yield better results. The photos shown here were taken in late May of 2006 when the river was running at about 900 cubic feet per second. Weeks Falls is enclosed in a lightly developed corner of Olallie State Park, with trails connecting to Iron Horse State Park and the Twin Falls section of Olallie as well.

William Tecumseh Sherman (en.wikiquote.org) William Tecumseh Sherman (8 February 1820 – 14 February 1891) was a United States Army general during the American Civil War. He succeeded General Ulysses S. Grant as commander of the Western Theater of that war in the spring of 1864. He later served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army from 1869 to 1883. He is best known for his “March to the Sea” through the U.S. state of Georgia that destroyed a large amount of Confederate infrastructure and appropriated supplies from Confederate civillians while operating without supply lines from the north. He is widely regarded by historians as an early advocate of “Total War”.