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is the west coast geography gmc. from Nor Cal threw Oregon, Wash, BC the weather hits the coastal mts and dumps the majority of it's rain and snow on the west side, very little makes it over the mts, hence it can get pretty dry on the other side
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Yeah, I know eastern WA is like the Sahara (I wanted to ask them how many years to the inch of rain? lol) but back in the late 1970s I drove up/down through McBride and Prince George and the change didn't seem that dramatic. It all seemed pretty wet and green compared to Colorado, but we turned off at Kitwanga and up through the Cassiar (both ways) so I never got down to the real coast (except for a stop at Stewart on the way back).
Coming back I picked up a couple backpacking/hitch hiking at Kitwanga and they were headed down to Vancouver for a Folk Music festival. I just
almost drove them all the way down there but I left them at PG and continued down to Jasper and Kootenay NP where I did some backpacking and met some folks that I still correspond with today. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't see that Quesnel and Williams Lake cowboy country. Only just a few years ago I ran into the Rich Hobson books!