Coming from downtown Vancouver. Which mountain am I looking at??

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Do you have any recommendations? My mom wants to learn about the mushrooms in the area and I have no idea where to start looking cuz I’m not living in the area any more

I know I'm definitely trying to find a needle in the haystack, but I've really fallen in love with the PNW and don't want to leave.

Is there a place in the PNW that is sunny, green, and doesn't have too much smoke?

I just don't want to be in the eastern part of the state, in the desert - without trees and more arid. Also, don't want to be in a place that's gloomy or rainy, because I want some sunshine. Trying to also avoid as much of the smoke as I can.

Can't think of a place like that, especially one that's not more than 3.5 hours away from a trauma I hospital. That's why I'm asking the community. Guessing there isn't a place like that, but who knows - maybe I can have my cake and eat it too.

Closest thing I can think of is the Olympic rain-shadow, but they can get fairly gloomy too. And, Bend and Hood River, OR can have pretty bad wildfire seasons.

If you can't think of a place like that either, that's totally cool. Just not trying to get a bunch of messages that say go to another part of the country, not what I'm looking for

Was a bit late to a Sounders match. 20 minutes before this photo, this street was packed with thousands of people. A good example of the concept of liminal spaces. I found it beautiful.

Hiya,

German guy here. I'm tentatively sort of in the planning stages of a solo roadtrip to the PNW in the summer of 2025. Arrival would be July 12-ish and departure August 2-ish so three weeks roundabout.

I would love to fly to KSFO, or KLAX, rent a car and drive north towards Seattle along the coast. No tent, no camping.

The one thing that is really worrying me is accomodation as soon as you get into the "boonies" north of SFO. Going by Google maps, the hotels seem to become sparse and quite expensive ($200 to $300/night).

I would prefer to not pre-book anything except accomodation right after arrival and before departure to be free, when en route, to stay in a nice place for three or four days even if it "messes" up the non-existent schedule ;) .

So, my question is: Is it possible to just hop in the car and to be very spontaneous with regard to accomodation or would it be better to actually make a schedule, pre-book every hotel and stick to the plan?
BTW, I would not mind driving, like, 30 minutes or so more inland if that would alleviate finding a reasonably priced place to stay (like a motel or Best Western). Don't need anything fancy. Just a roof over my head :) .

Thanks in advance for sharing any of your experiences in this regard!

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