On Sep 2, 12:31*am, riverman wrote:
SNIP

We were hiking thru the site of the avalanche disaster of 1910, where
2 passenger trains were lost. We hiked along the old switchback
roadbed, now a trail, out of the old Wellington site, thru the
remaining immense concrete snow sheds out to Windy Point where you can
see the main train tunnel thru the Cascade range. We will do some X-
country there next Winter.

It is still a very challenging pass in the Winter. Washington DOT
borrows an Abrams tank from the N-guard which sits at the Wellington
site all Winter and blasts down the chutes, but the highway is still
often cut by winter avalanches and rock slides. And of course that
whole highway is still a death trap, second only to the Pullman-Moscow
highway. But beautiful just the same.:-)

Dave