Assuming said valley is not shrouded in fog, the first thing your visitor says is something akin to, “Oh, look at the mountains ... the western Cascades are our own personal snow-capped end ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...

but the Cascade Range aquifer appears to be the largest mapped thus far. Though scientists have long known that the mountains in Oregon hold water, they were not sure just how much. The University ...

The Cascade mountain range was uplifted by magma ... geothermal drill hole temperature depth profiles essentially to map out where the water is. Miller: How is it that this data that came from ...