Chapter 16

The North Pacific Coast, home of Crescent City California. This region stretches from norther California all the way up and into Alaska. If I had to pick one word to describe this region it would be "cold" or "wet" It averages 75 inches of rain a year and has very mild summers, with cool winters. Most of the rain comes in the winter time, particularly in Crescent City. Other areas of this region do experience rain in a more average amount year around in the northern in the Washington area. Snow however, is uncommon in this region south of Vancouver. The lack of snow is nice though, because there are high winds in the region especially in northern California and Oregon which would could cause white-out conditions like those seen in the mountains or Alaska if it did in fact snow regularly.

(source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/OlympicMountainsWashington.jpg/800px-OlympicMountainsWashington.jpg)

This region you could say is dominated with mountains and the start of this domination is with the Klamath Mountains which are those near Crescent City. These are the mountains that many of the citizens of Crescent City use as their hiking land, picnicking area and even hunting grounds. The mountains conitnue south down out side of the region known as the Pacific Northwest.

(source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Rogue_River_Oregon_USA.jpg/800px-Rogue_River_Oregon_USA.jpg)

Like much of this region, Crescent City has a strong sense of hunting and gathering. Deer, salmon and berries are popular meal time foods. This also has to do with the fact that this region was the last area almost to be explored. Since in was the last region to be explored, excluding the poles, it is the region to have a influence by Europeans. Many places in our country show an influence of the people who explored them, but this influence has been there longer.

(source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/MouthSmithRiver.jpg)