Time to head up the WABDR
I'm considering continuing up the WABDR this summer, starting from Ellensburg on July 4th and taking 4 days or so to get to Canada.
Anyone interested in joining up? If you can't make it on the 4th, we could meet in Cashmere on the 5th, or in Chelan on the 6th.
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After sunrise at Steliko, we headed back to Ardenvoir and up Mud Creek Canyon to follow the route. Hit pavement again by 25 mile creek state park, lunch in Chelan, and started the trek up the east side of the lake. I had read about a washout north of Cooper Mountain, but the published detour to Black Canyon had a road closed sign. Drove up to the site of the washout, and one of the workers there aid the detour was NOT closed, so drove back again. Detour took me back to pavement south of Methow.
After getting back on dirt again, I started to notice more and more burned areas. Some more recent, other places it's been longer since the fires ravaged through the area. This particular area (a bit further north) had a mix of black and silver colored trunks still standing.
Stayed at Leader Lake campground (DNR) on Thursday night, and kept going from there on Friday morning. Took a detour at China Wall at Loup Loup to see if I could find remnants of the old mining camp. Didn't find any sign of the camp, but the view was amazing, like many other places along the way.
The trail towards the Arlington Mine site was a bit dicey, but made it through. Almost lost my ham antenna on the trail after having it hit so many trees during that detour... When I came to the end of the detour I found this sign. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have gone there.
We made it to the border near Nighthawk earlier than I expected, by 4:30 on Friday. Here's what the Canadian border station looks like.
After that, I decided to take SR20 home. Spent one final night in tent by by the side off a forest service road off SR20 west of Winthrop and came home this morning. Tomorrow it will be time to take the truck to the car wash!