I would have to wear something other than the Roadcrafter. Hmmm.......
We did Artist's Point two summers ago when the Cle Elum fire was raging. Visibility was down to less than 1/4 mile in Wenatchee. It was so stinking beautiful up there.
Chris, I haven't been to Artist's Point (and probably won't make it on this trip -- riding from Walla Walla to Harrison Hot Springs will pretty much take all day, I'd guess), but I have been to Mt St Helens and Rainier. We had a Concours Owners Group National Rally in Centralia in 2005. I'd ridden the North Cascades Highway west to east the year before on my way back from Hyder, Alaska.
I've got a friend who's the United Methodist minister in Twisp. He and his wife just moved there in June (just in time for the fire) and I'm hoping I'll have time for a cup of coffee with him.
I hope you get more time here than just swinging through fast. Much of the area from Bend, OR to Twisp, WA, will be in Eastern Washington and closer to a desert environment than what you see in the pictures. It's beautiful in its own way, but not this.
I don't know if you'll have the time, or what way you'll be traveling back. If there's a way to swing east when you get up to Bellingham on Hwy 9 to Mt. Baker and Artist Point, that would be great.
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You're also missing Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier. But maybe that'll give you another reason to come back.
Chris
I hope you get more time here than just swinging through fast. Much of the area from Bend, OR to Twisp, WA, will be in Eastern Washington and closer to a desert environment than what you see in the pictures. It's beautiful in its own way, but not this.
I don't know if you'll have the time, or what way you'll be traveling back. If there's a way to swing east when you get up to Bellingham on Hwy 9 to Mt. Baker and Artist Point, that would be great.
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You're also missing Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier. But maybe that'll give you another reason to come back.
Chris