Behind the Cascade curtain

The North Cascades Highway

Millions of years ago two massive tectonic plates collided on the American continent in what's now Washington state. As the mountains formed by that gigantic clash were thrust upwards, all the Democrats who were around at that time rolled down the western slopes to the sea and all the Republicans rolled eastward into the desert. And that's why we have the state we have today.

That's a excerpt from an interesting KUOW public radio program. We're rolling over to the east side of the curtain this weekend, and looking forward to some views like this along the North Cascades Highway: