Tumwater Mudslides

To show how much it has rained here, Highway 2 was closed Thursday and Friday for mudslides.

Now, we are the cold, snowy side of the state here in the Republic of Eastern Washington, not rain.  Rain is for the Coastal clientele, those with web feet and a coffee cup fused (rusted?) to their hand. The rain is supposed to stop as rain 30 miles West of the Cascades, turn to snow, and then end as snow 30 miles East of the Cascades... about 40 feet from my driveway.

But we need moisture to keep things moving... fish, dams, sales at Condotta's Motorsports Central. But not too much. As it is, we can't seem to get enough moisture according to the environmentalists (is it odd that "mental" is part of this noun?).  We could have floods of biblical proportion and the fish would still not have enough water to do whatever fish need to do past whatever fish did prior to whenever fish needed to do it.

I'm sure mudslides aren't good for fish... they definitely are not good for K1200LT riders.

So the radio said we had a mudslide 2 miles West of Leavenworth and the road is closed on the best 20 miles this time of year (where is Woody Goomsba when you need him?).  Heck, not that it is open but I counted 3 slides marked by the smears in different areas up the road. It is cleaned up nice but keep the rain up high and not sliding down my favorite stretch of road this time of year (I am so fed up with the basin runs I could choke, and there are no Goomsba struttin' bierfrau's past Peshastin).

But, it is still 55°f climbing up to Lake Wenatchee on the 2, then North on the 207 to County Hwy 22 (Chiwawa Loop Road) where the incredible lack of sand and grit in the corners is amazing, but could have been all the water over the road at some time but I'm not complaining... let's me drag a boot from time to time on the corners, back around to Hwy 209 (Chumstick Hwy) back to Leavenworth (still looking for the Goomsba dancers, when is Fasching?) and on to home.  Seems that there was something important back in Wenatchee because all the cars were doing 70+ mph and not a Trooper in sight.


Let ME do 65 mph by myself one time and they come out of the woodwork... (ok, maybe 75 mph, but I was passing... I'm just glad they don't check the top speed registered on the GPS), I'm running out of consulting cash for tickets. I wonder if the courthouse takes VISA? Naw, the bonus points aren't worth the explanation to my "accountant".


When is Spring? In Oregon?

Oh... we're there?

Crum...