The North Cascades Highway

We had talked about taking a fall drive over the North Cascades Highway before we leave for California and since Saturday was forecast to be a beautiful sunny day we decided it was the time to go. We took the Sebring convertible and although the weather was crystal clear with bright sunshine, the temperature never got to 50 degrees all afternoon so the top stayed up.

We left at 8:30am, it was to be a 500 mile drive, gassed the car and got breakfast to go at MacDonald's and headed up I-5 on our way to Auburn. We took Highway 18 to I-90 and drove east over Snoquamie Pass. It was a very pretty drive, but there was little snow on the mountains and mostly evergreen trees so the colors were what we were used to and nothing spectacular. We turned off I-90 North onto Blewett Pass and dropped down into Wenatchee, and all its apple orchards. We drove by Lake Chelan and headed north toward Twisp and Winthrop. We stopped along the way and bought a selection of apples, pears, and plumbs.