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    This is the slide site.
    This is the slide site.A fence with encouraging phrasesInscription at the memorial.The area walls are built using this river rock fencing.The memorial art.Beautiful flowersThe slide diverted the river and also covered the road. It severed communications and traffic.More flowersMemorial to the many rescue agenciesPrimrosesThe sky and mountains beyond.This flag was at slide's end. It covered a huge area.

    Oso landslide Memorial

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    Today we were on the road by 8:15 am. The first half of our journey was still through the mountains and valleys. It was a lovely drive on Hwy 530. We stopped for at least 30 minutes at the Oso Slide Memorial. On a Sunday morning in 2014, a landslide destroyed a whole community and killed 43 people. The Memorial was beautifully situated in what was the path of the slide. It told the story of what happened, of the rescues (11 were pulled alive from the path), of the rescuers, of the victims (all 43) and of the aftermath. The whole area is surrounded by wildflowers.

    After our stop, we continued and drove the last half of the trip on the Interstate. Fortunately it was a holiday Sunday morning and traffic was not too heavy.

    We are staying tonight in Issaquah, WA. We're getting all the batteries charged up. We could not find the part we need for the stove so we bought a new Coleman stove at REI. They were on sale and the clerk reminded is that if we can get the part later that we can return the new stove to REI in the next year. It is almost exactly like our old stove.

    Tomorrow we will do a little grocery shopping and head to an RV park just south of Mt Rainier. We'll be there 2 nights before progressing on to Olympic National Park further west.    Read more