Reply #2: Perhaps there is no belt ? [View All]

Must everyone be inside of some belt ?

Oregon is a land of many interesting features : The Cascades, the extensive deserts in the middle and east regions ... The coastal range .. The Willamette valley ... The Columbia Gorge ...

Trying to incorporate ALL of those various and wide ranging geographical aspects into a one word reference seems impossible ....

Perhaps it is the 'Oregon' belt ....

One of my favorite studies as a recent resident is the fact of the constant glacial deluges from Glacial Lake Missoula, an ever-repeating flood of water a half-mile high that carved the Columbia Gorge and many other features, such as the Coulees, the Scablands, the RICH Willamette Valley ...

I recently learned that Lake Oswego, formerly known as "Sucker Lake", was formed by a 'kolk', a vortex formed by the flood waters passing over the land ....

It seems that, like gods, regions as rich as Oregon and other western states lose something when someone attempts to confine it to a one word definition .... It limits our expression ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_Lake_Missoula

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_United_States_Pacific_Mountain_System

It it's any help: I understand the valleys in the west are 'Zone 7' according to the 'Sunset Western Garden' designation ...