Day 1: Saturday, Sept. 8, Seattle Area to Diablo Canyon, WA
  
 
 
It came to pass that Bigfoot needed a little roof work that was best accomplished in the Bigfoot factory, at Armstrong, British Columbia. I was eager to see the Bigfoot facility and to meet some of the folks responsible for the fine rigs.
 
I pushed off from Edmonds, just north of Seattle...
 
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I-5 North, toward Canada...
 
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East on SR-20, the North Cascades Highway, to the Cascade Mountains, following the Skagit River...
 
 
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The George Powerhouse at Newhalem, on the upper Skagit River...
 
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bigfootfactory_2007_043.JPG (187986 bytes) The Gorge Dam, on the upper Skagit River...
 
 
bigfootfactory_2007_044.JPG (304873 bytes) bigfootfactory_2007_045.JPG (194958 bytes) Continuing east on the North Cascade Highway...
 
 
bigfootfactory_2007_046.JPG (267386 bytes) bigfootfactory_2007_047.JPG (308689 bytes) I camped southeast of the Diablo Dam at the Colonial Creek Campground, on Diablo Lake...