Seeing Forever Across Washington
| Glacier National Park is a hard place to leave, but eventually I did have to move on. I crossed a tiny bit of Idaho before picking up the rain again in Washington. At this point I'm soaked, my gear is soaked, my maps are soaked - I basically have stopped deluding myself into believing that I will ever dry out. No trouble. Pretty is pretty, even when it's wet, and I continued to have a great time even as I was getting closer to home. |
| A long road across Eastern Washington. (Another of the pictures accompanying my Great Rides submission.) |
| Ooh! Look at the snow way up there on Mount Rainier! |
| ...And I'm sure you've all guessed by now that it wasn't long before I was IN that snow, way off in the distance. Luckily in was mid-week and there was no other traffic, so I took my time and traveled over the icy road as safely as possible. |
| I suppose I should count myself lucky; it's probably about 120 degrees in Tucson right about now. |
| As I descended the hill, the iciness was rapidly eliminated and I was left with the quite, solitary beauty that even just a couple inches of snow seems to bring. |
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