Bob,

Cle Elum was a town that had (past tense!) the unfortuate reputation for a high volume of prostitution. I always understood this had to do with its being in the heart of an area of solitary resource extraction--mining and logging. The lonely miners and loggers would roll into town, and apparently when they were back in the mountains applied many hooker's names to the Alpine Lakes area of the Cascades. I learned about this when I worked for the Forest Service in Seattle in the mid-1970's on the land exchange team that established the land for the wilderness area. I saw the old maps with the original names. Some of them were changed, others cleaned up. Somewhere back there is a waterfall with a sweet name now (hence, I can't remember it) that used to be called Cunt Falls--now that's memorable! Sheesh. . . bet this can wrench the thread into a different topic. . . but it's still on the Pacific Northwest theme! ;-D

Maggie