About Stehekin
Stehekin is a remote community in the North Cascades in north-central Washington State accessible only by trail, boat, or float plane. It is surrounded by North Cascades National Park and almost two million acres of federally designated Wilderness (Glacier Peak Wilderness Ares 576, 865 acres, Paysayten 520, 000 acres, Stephen Mather Wilderness 634,000 acres and Chelan/Sawtooth). About a hundred people live here year-round. They get several hundred-degree days each summer and an average of a hundred inches of snow each winter. They have no grocery stores, movie theaters, taverns or churches, but they do have an outstanding bakery....
To: Daffynition
Absolutely beautiful place.
2 posted on
07/24/2009 2:07:11 AM PDT by
Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles, reality wins all the wars)
To: Daffynition
Stehekin on Lake Chelan
4 posted on
07/24/2009 2:52:56 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
*ring*ring*ring*ring*ring*
Yes, that ruins it
6 posted on
07/24/2009 3:19:13 AM PDT by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
To: camle
9 posted on
07/24/2009 4:25:18 AM PDT by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: sionnsar
13 posted on
07/24/2009 6:02:12 AM PDT by
The SISU kid
(I feel really homesick all the time & so do all the other aliens.....)
To: Daffynition
Many years ago we took our boat up there from Manson. It was beautiful and well worth the very long trip!
14 posted on
07/24/2009 7:31:06 AM PDT by
zlala
To: Daffynition
Ah... I love Stehekin. It’s a darn shame they’re putting in phone lines.
I’ve been by boat and by float plane. Wonderful place. It’s he isolation that keeps it special. I stayed for a week in a cabin at a bed & breakfast there. Almost killed myself hiking up to Trapper Lake and back. Yikes, what a scary miserable climb that was.
Lake Chelan is a really cool lake. Very clear, and very deep— something like 1500ft deep. One of my best friends named his daughter Chelan, as she was (reportedly) conceived there. The word is a local indian word for “Deep still water”.
/memory lane.
18 posted on
07/24/2009 3:23:07 PM PDT by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Daffynition
Thanks for that.
Now I want to go!
21 posted on
07/24/2009 8:44:39 PM PDT by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: Daffynition
“reachable only by boat, float plane or a several-day hike through the wilderness.”
Sounds like heaven on earth.
28 posted on
07/26/2009 7:18:16 AM PDT by
Grunthor
(If Romney is the only GOP close to "O" in the polls come the primaries, who do you vote for?)
To: Daffynition
"I will arise and go now
and go to Innisfree . . . ."
W.B. Yeats
To: Daffynition
31 posted on
07/26/2009 8:03:31 AM PDT by
mysterio
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