Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Pacific Northwest===
The Beats also spent time in the Northern Pacific Northwest including Washington and Oregon. Kerouac wrote about sojourns to Washington's North Cascades in ''The Dharma Bums'' and ''On the Road''.<ref name="blogspot">{{Cite web|url=http://pacificnwseasons.blogspot.com/2008/09/kayak-camping-on-ross-lake-paddling-in.html|title=Pacific Northwest Seasons: Ross Lake: Paddling in the Path of Beat Poets|date=September 22, 2008|publisher=pacificnwseasons.blogspot.com|access-date=2014-11-30}}</ref>

[[Reed College]] in Portland, Oregon was also a locale for some of the Beat poets. Gary Snyder studied anthropology there, Philip Whalen attended Reed, and [[Allen Ginsberg]] held multiple readings on the campus around 1955 and 1956.<ref name="reed">{{Cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/winter2008/features/the_beats/|title=Reed Magazine: When the Beats Came Back (1/6)|publisher=reed.edu|access-date=2014-11-30}}</ref> [[Gary Snyder]] and [[Philip Whalen]] were students in Reed's calligraphy class taught by [[Lloyd J. Reynolds]].<ref name="reed2">{{Cite web|url=http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOROOT=%2Freedhisttxt&CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=theme&CISOBOX1=Calligraphy&CISOSORT=centeb&#124;f&CISOSTART=1,21|title=Reed Digital Collections : Search Results|publisher=cdm.reed.edu|access-date=2014-11-30}}</ref>