A Quick Trip To Barlow Pass

 

            Barlow pass is where they gate the Mountain Loop Highway for the winter, so it was a case of driving just about to the gate. It's hard to turn around right at the gate.

            Since we didn't have much time, this road was a quick way to get up into some Squatchie territory. It didn't disappoint. It looked perfectly likely. I do believe I could sense his presence!

            It was a very bright winter day, with the sun low in the sky. A person can get used to dim light, and then, pow!, there is the sun.

            We drove east out of town, through Lake Stevens, onto Highway 9, then turned east again on 92 heading to Granite Falls, which doesn't rate a dot on that map. 

            In Granite Falls, we got coffee from a nice Goth chick who was amused when I said we were looking for Sasquatch. She told us about something called Nightcrawlers in Fresno, CA. Ewww!

            We took the left turn then onto the rather famously glamorous Mountain Loop Highway. Though, of course you can't get through this time of year. Then we turned around and came home.

        Some of Navigator's photos follow.

Gloomy highway..

Back east of Marysville, coming home, the flood abides!

            A couple of my photos follow.

            There was snow up there, not a whole bunch, but it was rather cold. There was black ice in the shadows, and frost in other spots. Wheeee! I don't mind.

            That's about it!

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