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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 25, 2017 - 08:40am PT
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Washington State DOT is warning that due to the heavy snow year, the North Cascades Highway could remain closed until June. That's unusually late. This is the road that runs through Washington and Rainy passes and goes right by the Liberty Bell group. Here's the link and photo from the Seattle Times article:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/snowbound-north-cascades-highway-could-be-closed-into-june/
And here's the Liberty Bell group as Tony and I got suckered into an ill advised "romp" up the Beckey Route. We got rained, hailed and mostly lightninged off before the summit about 4hrs after this photo was taken. Photo from the middle of the then closed highway in August 2013. [bit of editing]
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 25, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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Tony and I got suckered into an ill advised "romp" up the Beckey Route.
In that photo, the Beckey route looks like something you'd walk along, rather than climb up.
Kidding aside, I sure do love that place.
Edit: Damn -- all of a sudden it looks steep again...
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Mar 25, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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Those roofs look pretty wild! ;)
Edit: Well now my joke doesn't make sense. :P
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 25, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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With as much as 45 feet of snow on the highway in some places
When avalanche chutes are emptied, there could be as much as 70 feet of snow on the roadway in some places.
Holy Cow !!!!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 25, 2017 - 09:16am PT
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It's an evil place. Back when it was still dirt I sat in a pickup camper with Bruce and Ellie Hawkins for TWO DAYS watching him inhale half the output of Sinaloa while it rained non-stop. Ellie and I never had to even touch one! If it had stopped raining I doubt I could have got out of the rig to do anything besides pee.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 25, 2017 - 11:18am PT
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Reilly, the coincidental stoner!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Lots of snow this year. I remember getting snowed on in August in the Hart's Pass area. Pretty interesting road up to Hart's Pass; I believe it's the highest drive-able road in Washington.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Been a 'real' winter in the PNW - quite unusual and I'm pretty f*#king sick of it.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Ooooh. :-) hearty chuckle recorded locally
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 7, 2017 - 05:26pm PT
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It's funny for me. Washington and Chinook Passes are both around 5500 feet. Then I go down to California's east side of the Sierra Nevada, and we drive down and down and down to camp at elevations 1000 feet above that.
Man, we're getting pretty hammered with wind an rain here in Seattle, at this very second. Very gusty.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Hart's Pass and the Slate Mountain road are pretty crazy. There was a fire lookout on Slate Mountain until the Air Force decided to put a radar station there to watch for Soviet bombers. They chopped the top off the mountain to make a platform, then built a tower so the fire lookout would be in the same place it was before the mountain was decapitated.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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BITD went up Hart's pass to pan gold; Bob Boenish (Carl's brother) was driving the pickup up the Hart's pass road. Thought we were going to die .... and I was racing Formula Ford at the time. My brother was running up the road catching grapes in his mouth that we lobbed as high as we could. Good times.
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