Friday, July 23, 2010

Day 18 Summer 2010 Park to Park Road Trip

Woke up this morning, loaded the car and headed South to Abbotsford BC where we will cross the Canada/US border into the State of Washington. There was about a 20 minute wait at the border.

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We are going to drive to the summit of Mt. Baker driving along the Mt. Baker Scenic Byway. As of yesterday’s report, the last stretch of the Byway is closed beyond the Visitor Center because of winter snow remaining on the roadway. Also the Visitor Center has been closed since last fall and is scheduled to open today. Good timing for us that we are here now and not several days earlier.

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Near the summit is Heather Meadows and Picture Lake.

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We arrived at the Visitor Center and the online reports that we read yesterday are true… the road is closed, the Visitor Center is Open.

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Although we can’t get to the summit, the scenery here is well worth the drive.

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The temperature is 70 degrees, but despite that, there is still a lot of snow. We don’t get this much snow at home in Lafontaine Ontario.

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Some more photos of Picture Lake.

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We ate our picnic lunch and then headed for Mount Vernon Washington where we are staying the night.

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2 comments:

  1. I'm not much of an expert but that looks like about a 1950 Hudson sitting on the other side of (and being reflected in) the lake. Gorgeous scenery.

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  2. I am no expert either, and I should have asked the owner, because I did stop and tell him that he should leave his car parked there and walk back up the hill to take a photo of his car reflecting in the water. I thought it was a great photo opportunity, but he just drove away, didn't take my advice. Oh well.

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