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UNIMPROVED ROADS IN THE OREGON CASCADES.  THE PRECIPITATION WAS FORECAST TO
DIMINISH IN THE AFTERNOON.  BEFORE WE LEFT HOME IN BEAVERTON, WE CHANGED TO
STUDDED SNOW TIRES JUST IN CASE WE RAN INTO SLICK ROADS.  AT LOWER
ELEVATIONS IT HAD BEEN RAINING HEAVILY.  AS WE CLIMBED, THE RAIN BECAME
MIXED WITH SNOW AND THEN EVENTUALLY TURNED TO A HEAVY, WET SNOW.  IT WAS
FUN TO DRIVE IN THE SLUSH AS IT SPLASHED OUTWARD TO THE SIDES OF THE CAR
AND EVEN IN FRONT OF US AS THE WATERY SNOW BECAME DEEPER.  WE WERE ENJOYING
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OURSELVES AND TALKING ABOUT HOW IF IT KEPT COMING DOWN WE COULD GET SNOWED
IN.  BUT, WE HAD NEVER BEEN STUCK NOT IN 40 SOME YEARS SINCE I CAN REMEMBER
MY FATHER TAKING ME OUT INTO REMOTE AREAS.  I WASNT REALLY CONCERNED.  WHEN
THE SNOW HAD BECOME DEEP AND A STEEP INCLINE SLOWED US DOWN, WE DECIDED IT
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160 A SP2AYC 318,159 757 159 A SP5LCC 177,468 489 138 A SP4IGV 115,584 307
112 A SP6GNJ 89,838 277 126 A SP6JKH 82,503 284 103 A SP5CGN 82,128 270 116
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