>>1590823Eastern Washington is not high elevation, the highest point of Eastern Washington is 2230m bordering Idaho and Canada. The semi-arid region is of even lower elevation. OP is wondering why there is no high elevation communities in WA, given that literally every western US state minus Oregon, Alaska, and Washington have communities that are higher than 2000m, some 3000m. Also even in a semi-arid climate you still get snowed in at high elevation, Leadville (3090m - 10,150 ft) gets around 12 inches of rain a year and almost all of it falls as some 140 inches worth of snow in winter.