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HWY 20 possible opening
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<br><br><br>The 1976/77 season it never closed. That year Chinook and Cayuse also stayed open through the winter.... I think the 76/77 year is still considered the worst season on record for snow in the past 40 years. <br>We had some real lean winters in the 1940s as well as the 1940s was the worst decade on record for snowfall in WA. but I doubt any of us were around, or at least old enough to remember those years.Is that 1972 opening date listed a typo? September was the opening date?<br><br>Will be nice to get access, but rather grim assessment of being the earliest date to be opened for reasons that we all know. I thought that there was one year the the road never closed. Does that not count?
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<br><br>(from the DOT website)<br><br>Highway 20 history<br>The North Cascades Highway was completed September 2, 1972, connecting the Skagit River Valley with the Methow Valley.Is that 1972 opening date listed a typo? September was the opening date?<br>
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<br>The road looks pretty slick cycling on that ice.<br><br>quote]<br><br><br>Looking at the road we at first thought there would be no way we could bike on it, but temperatures in the shade were really cold and the cold snow was gripping amazingly well. The tires were making some funny sounds on that snow. Pretty cool experience
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Grippy sounds great, you can really get flying coming down that highway. At least, that was the fun part last year when I rode it.
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