Klickitat Walkabout with a Pentax MX
2021/11/26: The day after Thanksgiving Chiyoko & I went for a walkabout Klickitat with my Pentax MX loaded up with a roll of JCH Streetpan 400 (Shot at 200). Located about 13 miles North of the Columbia River on the banks of the Klickitat River the sleepy little town is well past its heyday of the early 1900s when a large lumber mill operated here along with Mineral Springs carbonated water was being bottled and sold in the 1920s later becoming a dry ice plant in the 1930s.
Klickitat Mineral Springs. The carbonated mineral springs just east of Klickitat were well known & used by the the native and settlers alike. For a short time in the late 1920’s a commercial venture bottled and sold the water but it soon became flat in the bottles and the venture failed and in the 1930s it was turned into a dry ice plant instead. Today the only building that remains on the site is the old Ice house. Saved from destruction because Vaux’s Swifts use the old chimney as a roost. Carbonated water still bubbles up in many places around the area but the easiest to find is on the opposite bank of the river to the ice house. One of the old well heads remains and tepid sulphury carbonated water bubbles out. It's perfectly safe to drink but tastes pretty awful!
Read MoreKlickitat Mineral Springs. The carbonated mineral springs just east of Klickitat were well known & used by the the native and settlers alike. For a short time in the late 1920’s a commercial venture bottled and sold the water but it soon became flat in the bottles and the venture failed and in the 1930s it was turned into a dry ice plant instead. Today the only building that remains on the site is the old Ice house. Saved from destruction because Vaux’s Swifts use the old chimney as a roost. Carbonated water still bubbles up in many places around the area but the easiest to find is on the opposite bank of the river to the ice house. One of the old well heads remains and tepid sulphury carbonated water bubbles out. It's perfectly safe to drink but tastes pretty awful!
