#Skykomish River

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North Fork Skykomish River, Baring, Washington

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Just some of my favorite wet gifs

1/2 - Skykomish River, Washington State, USA | 3 - Doubtful Sound, South Island, Aotearoa | 4 - Heather Meadows, Washington State, USA | 5 - Rakiura Track, Stewart Island, Aotearoa

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Bridge over Skykomish River,

Baring Washington

Baring on my mind

Mind

Changed since a chance encounter

Moon

full

so bright

Bike

bike is life

foreign moving object

head

brain bouncing

Baring on my mind

the kids and grandkids

ins and outs

dearly missed

Baring on my mind

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Skykomish River, WA [OC] 3024 x 4032

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I love u skykomish river 🥺😭

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Skykomish River, Washington.

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Duvall - Marckworth Loop

11 May 2023

I did this loop in the opposite direction a couple of years ago (April 2021: Duvall and Marckworth) and have wanted to come back ever since. It’s a 45-minute drive in traffic out through the suburbia of Bellevue and Redmond to the farmlands of the Snoqualmie Valley and the small town of Duvall. I parked at the Depot (also a great trailhead for the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, but that wasn’t part of today’s route).

I like this route because it’s out of the city, but not too far a drive. It’s a nice length (37 miles) with some climbing but nothing awful. The paved portions are pleasant, but the gravel is really the attraction.

My route followed Cherry Valley and Kelly Roads east from Duvall, before turning sharply left onto Swan Mill Road, which becomes Stossel Creek Road. Somewhere it turns to gravel, somewhere there’s a gate, and somewhere you begin to climb. Most of this lies within the Washington DNR’s Marckworth Forest. Because there’s a gate (and another at the north end), cars can’t do this loop, which is part of its attraction. While the basic route is usually pretty evident, the navigation gets confusing in spots, and it really helps to have looked at maps and loaded the route into the GPS. Eventually, the route pops back out on Polston Road/299th Ave SE which drops down to Ben Howard Road along the south bank of the Skykomish River,

Ben Howard Road returns you to WA 203 and the Snoqualmie Valley. I guess one could just return to Duvall on 203 (good shoulder, but lots of cars) but the secondary roads through the farmland are more pleasant. They lack the shoulders, but they also lack the traffic. The roughest stretch was the final 3/4 mile leg back across the valley into Duvall on the Woodinville-Duvall Road. There’s no room for a shoulder and there are plenty of cars, so it takes some patience (on your part and on theirs).

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Skykomish River Camera: Nikon OneTouch Film: Kodak Portra 400

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Wellington Train Wreck

Wellington, once a thriving railroad town in the Washington Cascades, was abandoned long ago for a tragic reason: It was the site of what may have been America's worst avalanche-railroad disaster of the twentieth century, a disaster the town could not survive.

The Great Northern Railway built the 2.6-mile-long Cascade Tunnel as part of a network of tunnels and rail lines through Stevens Pass in 1893. The town of Wellington was located in a valley at the west end of the tunnel, along the Tye River. About a mile to the west, the railroad built a second tunnel, which opened into western Washington.

The trains that passed through the Cascades were serviced in Wellington, and the town was also a stop for passengers if the train was delayed due to heavy snow in the passes. It had a small hotel, a general store, and a restaurant.

At the end of February 1910, a nine-day blizzard hit the Cascade Mountains. Eleven feet of snow fell on the last day alone. Two trains from Spokane were delayed in Wellington, waiting for the snow to clear before they could heard to Seattle.

When the stormy broke on February 28, passengers and crew boarded their trains and waited for snowplows to clear the tracks. The trains stood under some of the wood-roofed sheds just outside the western tunnel. As the day wore on, the weather warmed up, and it began to rain. The passengers sat in the trains all day and into the night. They were still there, waiting under the sheds at around one a.m. on March 1, when the train turned into a thunderstorm. High above the trains, a slab of snow broke loose, starting an avalanche ten feet high and a quarter mile long. The avalanche missed Wellington, but it swept the train 150 feet to the bottom of the valley.

Officially, ninety-six people died, but there were rumors that the death count was higher and that the railroad and newspapers lied about the numbers. It might have been an honest mistake, however, since all the bodies were not recovered until the end of July. It was considered a miracle that twenty-three people survived.

The town and the railroad quickly received a bad-luck reputation. In October 1910, the railroad renamed the town Tye, after the river valley. It also rebuilt a concrete snow shed, so the disaster could not repeat itself. Even so, people were still uncomfortable stopping there. When the railroad built a new depot farther west, in Skykomish, the little community of Tye faded awya.

Some believe the spirits of the dead from the 1910 avalanche still relive the trauma of the crash. Those who visit the Wellington town site in the winter claim that in addition to the wind, they can hear the sounds of a ghostly avalanche, the crash of the train as it falls down the mountainside, and the screams of the injured people. Others claim they have heard the sound of train whistles as they walked through the tunnel.

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Skykomish River, Index WA

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Skykomish River, Washington State, US [3000x4000][OC] https://ift.tt/zx9HfGy

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Skykomish or Snoqualmie River Rafting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/12h6l4v/skykomish_or_snoqualmie_river_rafting/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr