Ahh personal attacks. Good morning to you too.

Or "the mountain" as in "crystal mountain?"

Really? From my point of view, I was trying to be friendly and recommend a cool unique dining experience close to OPs posted picture, then a bunch of people take issues with with how I worded a paragraph. Not taking into consideration that maybe I wasn't speaking about paradise wa. Maybe I was talking about paradise valley? Or paradise bowl? Or maybe just my personal opinion that it's a paradise, so maybe reflect that you could be an asshole atm as well.

I pack a pretty decent 7.6 inch, just saying

Is googlefu now just typing in the most basic keywords?

But you did, you said "the mountain". In this context one would assume Rainier. Plus you said "go up to Paradise".

Look you made a mistake, that's fine. But your replies just make you look like a stupid asshole.

Idiot doubles down.

Idiot.

This picture gives me all the PNW feels. My gawd I love this place.

Their food is amazing. It's been many years since I was last there, but I've been going since I was a child 50 years ago. I've never been to Rainier and not stopped in at Copper Creek Inn.

Last time I was there on a motorcycle day trip and got a slice of Marionberry pie. Best I've ever had.

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Folks have already mentioned the pillow basalts on display in the Olympics, but it should also be pointed out that the eastern Olympics seen from Seattle are part of the Crescent formation which is made up of oceanic basalt. Look into the Siletzia story. There was a Hawaii or Iceland-like island that formed off the coast of Oregon millions of years ago and eventually accreted onto the western coast of North America. This means the northeastern and eastern Olympics are geologically quite distinct from the interior and western Olympics. In my mind you can kind of sense it when you peer into the range from atop peaks like Mount Ellinor and Mount Townsend, or even standing on Hurricane Ridge.

>and we also used to have a columbia basin ecosystem capable of feeding millions of people with salmon runs.

Have you seen this? It was on PBS last week. Gutwrenching.

https://www.fhff.org/post/the-lost-salmon

This is correct, I-5 just past Tacoma is a deathly molasses in winter slog….never fails to disappoint for the last few times I’ve done the drive. Bring some audiobooks or podcasts to catch up on.

It’s good setup. https://www.drinkmillhaus.com/

Just watched an eye opening documentary on PBS this past week on the plight of the NW salmon. It is worth watching.

https://www.fhff.org/post/the-lost-salmon

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Leave earlier and plan to hang out at cafe or something near your event as a buffer.

Ah, good catch. Alas, unable to edit the title. But thanks for the heads-up.

How are the roads now

Awesome. Thanks!

Cider place?

Portland is right on the Columbia River delta that the Eastern Washington flood basalt flowed through to get to the ocean. If you go closer to to Mt Hood there should be some outcroppings here and there along the road. But if you want to see large batholiths then NE Oregon in the Elkhorn mountains or SW Oregon near Medford and Granite pass.

Again the reason we don't see as many large granite formations are because of the trees and soil covering them up. So you have to find where it as been eroded away or where there has been massive uplift.

How about closer to Portland area? Seems like mostly basalt from what I have seen.

Well all of the Cascades are silica/granite. You just have to find places where the soil has eroded away or where roads have been blasted through the mountains. It's harder to find open granite formations in western Washington because of all the trees. There is Granite Mountain off of I-90 or going up past Paradise on Mt Rainier is always a good bet.