Our walk a couple weeks ago on the Whitehorse Trail originated at the old Fortson Mill site. The mill site's origins go back to 1905 "when the land was purchased in order to build and operate a new sawmill. This was successful and soon after a community was built around it. The mill continued to grow and prosper and had reached a population of 320 people by 1926." All that is left are the concrete structures. #PNW #history #Darrington #snohomishcounty #photography https://www.discoverdarrington.com/history-2/historical-places/fortson-mill/
Fortson Mill

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Just random love for my heavenly brother in mountain chaos, Chris Christianson, aka Zippy, aka Zip Crazed Maniac, aka Spastic Moth.
Dude, you among so many others changed my life and I will never forget you. #MyBestVacationIsYourWorstNightmare
#SquireCreekWall #Darrington #Cascades #BigWallClimbing #HangGliding

Ohhhh man, this episode of #StormStories (#WeatherChannel) is about the #Oso mudslides in NW Washington State. I drove to #Darrington when trying (unsuccessfully) to get a glimpse of #GlacierPeak (#volcano east of Everett). It didn’t even hit me until the return drive, when I saw the sheared-off mountain, that I had passed through Oso, and the roads I was driving on were rebuilt after having been obliterated.

It feels kind of slimy to use so many hashtags…but that’s how Mastodon rolls, eh?