The Land of Beautiful Water 



Stillness and Beauty- 

 hundred feet. The falls of the Stehekin River and Agnes Creek 

 are impressive in their grandeur. Rainbow Creek drops into the 

 Stehekin River in falls 260 feet in height. 



From the glaciers and springs of the summit flow streams which 

 are so close a succession of cascades and falls from their source to the 

 valley at the foot of the mountain that at a distance they look like one 

 continuous fall. The view is glorious: A vast mountain, glacier 

 crowned; numberless mountain streams glistening in the sunlight 

 and rushing in cascade and fall from lake to lake toward the valley; 

 iridescent green of the glacial ice, white of the snow fields, blue of 

 the lakes, bright varied colors of the meadows, and brown, red, and 

 green of rock and bordering forests. 



In addition to Lake Chelan there are about 25 lakes in the Chelan 

 basin that are of sufficient size and importance to be shown on the 

 maps. Domke Lake, the largest, is about a mile and a half long. 

 Blue Lake, Rainy Lake, Doubtful Lake, and Trapper Lake are of 

 peculiar interest on account of the unusual topography about them. 

 They occupy old glacial cirques, the sides rising in precipitous walls 

 of solid rock on steep talus slopes. The majority of the lakes are 



