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SR 20 - North Cascades Highway - 2003 Rockslide Photos

Falls and Afternoon Creek rockslide
Falls Creek (left) and Afternoon Creek (right) with the Cascades
Highway at the bottom of the photo.

Looking up Afternoon Creek
Looking up Afternoon Creek at boulders that are as big as a house.

100 plus tons of rock on the highway
100 plus tons of rock on the highway below Falls Creek. The largest
rock is 50 tons.

A large crater left by boulders
As rocks tumbled down the hillside, a majority of them bounced off the
highway, causing damage as seen above, and then landed in the
Skagit River below.