Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day One (08.10.07)
Today was going to be a very long day. Not only would I be attempting to reach my destination in Packwood, I would also have to include the drive from my home in the middle of Washington state to the southern border near Oregon to start the tour of the Washington Cascade Mountains. My goal was to complete the drive from the Oregon border to the British Columbia in four days.
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Kapowsin-Ohop Valley Backroads
Anytime I'm traveling through Eatonville, Washington to get back to my home in Edgewood, one of my favorite routes to miss the infamous State Route (SR) 161 traffic through Graham and South Hill is to take the leisurely scenic drive through the Ohop Valley, past Lake Kapowsin and into the Puyallup Valley to Orting.
Categories: Adventures Tags: backroads, camp, camp one road, camping, carbonado, clay city, eatonville, elbe, electron, fish, fishing, graham, history, kapowsin, kosmos, lahar, lake, mineral, morton, mt rainier, mud flow, national park, nisqually, ohop, orting, orville, pse, puget sound eneregy, puyallup, railroad, randle, river, sigmond road, south prairie, tacoma, voss resort, washington, wildlife, wilkeson
