Fogbound, with no compass, and adrift, I started trying things.

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Not only is it farther north than you might expect to find a desert (it's at approximately the same latitude as Medford, 220 miles to the west), but it's also more representative of the Pacific Northwest's climate and ecology than is the fogbound coast.

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