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Crews close to clearing snow off Cascade roads
SEATTLE — Washington state road crews using heavy-duty snow blowers and bulldozers are close to reopening three highways through the Cascades that were closed by deep winter snow and avalanche danger.
The Transportation Department expects to reopen Cayuse Pass on Tuesday, the North Cascades Highway on Thursday, and Chinook Pass by May 25, in time for the Memorial Day weekend.
Cayuse and Chinook passes are on the east side of Mount Rainier, where up to a foot of new snow fell as recently as Thursday.
The North Cascades Highway is the state’s northernmost route across the Cascades.
The North Cascades crews have been working toward each other since late March from the east and west sides of a 37-mile stretch of state Route 20. They were a mile-and-a-half apart Friday, said DOT spokesman Jeff Adamson in Wenatchee.
A bulldozer is helping each snow blower because the snow is so deep and dense, he said.
“The consistency of the snow is like concrete, so you can put a D6 Caterpillar on top of it and it doesn’t sink” Adamson said.
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