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First trip of the year to the North Cascades

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Via Highway 530, Arlington, Darrington, Rockport, Marblemount to US 20 to Newhalem and the Diablo Lake Overlook. First stop on 530, the Oso Slide Memorial. A nice roadside installation, commemorating the 2014 landslide that crossed the river and inundated a whole neighborhood. Individual memorial Views from the site Here are Mountain Views along the highway. …

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Favorite Destination-the beauty of the North Cascades

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About two hours northeast of our home in Everett, Washington, is the North Cascades National Park.  The last town before the park is the "company town" of Newhalem, which is basically owned by Seattle City Light.  Seattle gets a large portion of its electric power from the dams on the Skagit River, within the National …

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