Skagit Valley Herald
Highway 20 over the North Cascades is set to open to traffic Friday morning.
State Department of Transportation crews finished plowing the road Monday and will spend the rest of the week clearing snow chutes above the roadway, clearing turnouts and reinstalling signs and guardrails, according to a news release from the department.
The highway has been closed between mileposts 134 near Diablo and 171 west of Mazama since early November.
Generally, clearing the road takes four to six weeks, according to the release. This year, because of unusually soft snow and risky avalanche conditions, it will take seven.
“Oftentimes chutes would dump snow onto portions of the road that were previously plowed,” the release states.
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