December 30, 2003

• I lied. No pics of Leavenworth. I got there too late to take any decent ones, and I spent my time in a bookstore.

  It was a lovely drive, though. There must have been a snow storm in the early AM hours, because the snow was still happy and fluffy through all the higher elevations. The stretch between Gold Bar and Skykomish was especially noteworthy, with the sideways late-afternoon sun putting the snow-covered trees in deep relief.

  The road was icy, but no biggie, except that espresso-and-heavy-metal-fueled type-A ski kids from the city kept tailgating me coming down through Stevens Pass in the dark, on the return trip. Ok, YOU have the 4WD SUV with the snowboard rack and the Thule photon torpedo locker and the retina-burning fog lamps. I'M in a front wheel drive station wagon... do ya MIND??

  I would like to have a 4WD, though, if for no other reason than the road off to the north from Index was closed, but if I'd taken it anyway there'd be some spectacular pictures of that spectacular valley on this 'blog. People live back there, even during the winter, so the road has to be at least passable...

  Anyway. The forecast is that the temp won't go above freezing until tomorrow afternoon. This counts as a freak of nature in the temperate Puget sound region...

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