Snow!

Thinking of places that you never thought you’d be….  This morning we traveled north to Blaine, the upper most boarder town in the NW.  Right on the Canadian border.  At this crossing there is a park with a Peace Arch, a large, well, arch dedicated to the freedom of travel and peaceful relations.  We’ll never see that on the Mexican boarder.  We stood in two countries.

Then traveling the secondary roads, we went through numerous small towns to the Cascade National Park to drive up to Mt. Baker.  The snowy peak that we’ve seen for the last couple of days.  The road started off  very reasonably, windy, but with guardrails.  Then we went higher and the view was amazing, the road still okay.  Then higher, and I got a little more nervous.  Then higher, and the guardrails abandoned us and I got pretty nervous, then we drove on more… and more and then pass the ski area - currently closed for the summer.  Then we drove more, the views breath taking, if one still had breath to take…. And then we got to a ranger station and parking area … and there was snow.  Snow.  Piles of snow.  Rocky mountain tops that were in walking distance, all covered with snow.  Snow.  The mountain that we’ve been seeing from a far - we were now standing on it.

There was more road, going up a little higher.  It had a sign that said due to the nature of the switchbacks no trailers, and it had no guard rails.  We decided we’d gone that far, we really had to go all the way to the top, so, though I was so very much NOT a happy camper, I said, ‘let’s go’.    At the top there was more snow.  Snow.  We were 5,000 feet in the air - where there was rock with snow in July.  I still can’t believe I was there.  (But we do have the pictures to prove it, though I think I look a little green in them.)

At any rate, I’m very proud of myself.  And I’m not sure I want to do it ever again.  But it was impressive and something everyone should do at least once.  Snow.   July.

Tomorrow we’ll drive thru Fairhaven, and head south.  I want to visit Microsoft and we’ll end up at SeaTac to head out.  Our flight is the overnight, so I’m not sure if there will be a post here tomorrow or home the next day or…???

I’ll be glad to get home.

Snow...and me on a mountain high enough to walk in it.  Snow.