What's up on the Skykomish?

Didn't fish this weekend. Went up to Steven's Pass to my son's cabin
and hiked some of the Iron Goat trail. Up and down Highway 2, the
Skykomish river looked in beautiful shape. I forget just how big and
beautiful this river is, and how classically steelheady it looks.
Noted some pods of gearheads but had no chance to stop and
reconnoiter. Anyone out there who can fill in some substance on whats
up fish wise on this river right now?

Second query anyone got some advise on Ross Lake up off the North
Cascades Highway?

Dave

wrote:

Skykomish

Dave, what is the proper pronunciation for that word?

Russell

On Sep 1, 8:26*pm, "Russell D." wrote:
wrote:

As I understand it . . . . Its origin is in the Whulshootseed language
originally spoken by several of the Coastal Salish "tribes" of the
Puget Sound and basin. The spelling is in the English alfabet.
Pronunced Sky-ko-mish.

Dave

On Sep 2, 12:14*pm, wrote:
On Sep 1, 8:26*pm, "Russell D." wrote:

wrote:

As I understand it . . . . Its origin is in the Whulshootseed language
originally spoken by several of the Coastal Salish "tribes" of the
Puget Sound and basin. The spelling is in the English alfabet.
Pronunced Sky-ko-mish.

Dave

More detailed, its 'sky-KO-mish'. Used to run rafts down it, and I
might have the first canoe run of Airplane Turn back in 1984. Lived
just upstream of Index in a treehouse. Them was the days....

--riverman
(50 today. HBTM, IAOMN)

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