Drive 60 miles east from Everett, Washington, on U.S. Highway 2 and you'll reach the treacherous Stevens Pass in the magnificent Cascades. While the mountain road is known for heavy snowfall and ...

March 1 marks the date of the deadliest avalanche in the history of the United States: the Wellington avalanche near Stevens Pass in 1910. In the final days of February, the weather dumped a lot of ...

The once-infamous catastrophe in this state -- an epic of life and death and railroading in the Cascades -- has awaited its worthy book for almost a century. The surprise is that the 1910 Wellington ...

Tunnels may not be glamorous, but there are few things more satisfying than honking your car’s horn when driving in a tunnel bored through a mountain. The urge to test the acoustics of a car horn in a ...