Spring is strange in the Cascades—skiing powder in May?—but one thing stuck to plan this year. The Washington State Department of Transportation announced via Instagram on Monday that State Route 20, our northernmost across-the-state route, will reopen Tuesday.
Though the road starts literally in Puget Sound, on Whidbey Island, SR 20 becomes known as the North Cascades Highway when it hits higher elevations on its way east. Every winter it closes between Ross Lake and Mazama in the Methow Valley due to extreme amounts of snow and avalanche danger. This year, besides clearing as much as 14 feet of snow from the high passes, WSDOT had to contend with a washout near
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