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dave54
Nomad
Aug 16, 2015

Mother nature changed our plans.

Currently in the Newhalem area, spending a few days at Ross Lake before heading to Lake Chelan.

Oops -- campgrounds and roads closed at Chelan due to fires.

Now we just HAVE to spend another several days in North Cascades fishing, hiking, paddling. Oh darn! :B
  • The Lakeshore RV park in downtown Chelan had power restored Sunday morning and is open. The road going to Lake Chelan State Park is open, but closed immediately after you pass the entrance to the park. I'm not sure if the park itself is open, but you can get to it okay.

    The smoke isn't too bad if you don't have asthma. We saw lots of people walking around town today and no one had on dust masks.
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    RAS43
    Explorer III
    magnusfide wrote:
    2oldman wrote:
    Yah.. you don't wanna go there or anywhere east. Central WA is getting a lot of smoke.

    Prayers for all in the way of the fires. We have several friends who live there and the smoke is incredibly dense in certain areas.


    X2 on the prayers and thoughts for anyone effected by fires. Been there, then that.
    We came through SE Montana and central Wyoming today and the smoke and haze was very bad, and I have not heard about fires in these two states.
  • I feel for all the animals getting killed and miss placed.
  • 2oldman wrote:
    Yah.. you don't wanna go there or anywhere east. Central WA is getting a lot of smoke.

    Prayers for all in the way of the fires. We have several friends who live there and the smoke is incredibly dense in certain areas.
  • Yah.. you don't wanna go there or anywhere east. Central WA is getting a lot of smoke.

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