Stehekin: Muddied but unbowed

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Stehekin: Muddied but unbowed</h1>
                <h2><p>The tiny community of Stehekin on Lake Chelan is still digging out from last week's rock and mud slides, although things are getting back to normal, according to the Wenatchee World. Stehekin resident Mike Barnhart told the paper that the slides were the worst in memory: Rental bikes</p></h2>
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            <p>The tiny community of Stehekin on Lake Chelan is still digging out from last week's rock and mud slides, although things are getting back to normal, <a href="http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/sep/09/after-the-storm-the-cleanup-continues/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">according to the Wenatchee World</a>. Stehekin resident Mike Barnhart told the paper that the slides were the worst in memory: Rental bikes for all those tourists who arrive by ferry or float plane were pushed into the lake; several cars were buried in mud; and an historic cabin was damaged. And humans aren't the only ones bitten: <a href="http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/09/mega-bird-migration.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Cliff Mass' weather blog reports</a> that migrating birds had to lay low during the storm. But then, as the weather turned ideal for the migrating flocks on Saturday, not-to-be-missed radar images actually captured their massive — presumably happy — return to the journey.</p>
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The tiny community of Stehekin on Lake Chelan is still digging out from last week's rock and mud slides, although things are getting back to normal, according to the Wenatchee World. Stehekin resident Mike Barnhart told the paper that the slides were the worst in memory: Rental bikes for all those tourists who arrive by ferry or float plane were pushed into the lake; several cars were buried in mud; and an historic cabin was damaged. And humans aren't the only ones bitten: Cliff Mass' weather blog reports that migrating birds had to lay low during the storm. But then, as the weather turned ideal for the migrating flocks on Saturday, not-to-be-missed radar images actually captured their massive — presumably happy — return to the journey.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi