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Homemade monument marks northern end of fire-blocked Pacific Crest Trail

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By John Ryan Verified
| Centralia Chronicle Verified
By the time long-distance hiker Derek Hu reached Washington’s Stevens Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail, the engineer from Taiwan had crossed 2,467 miles of mountains, snowfields, forests, and deserts, starting at the border with Mexico. Smoke from the rapidly growing Little Giant Fire, just northeast of Stevens Pass, had led some hikers to abandon their quest to walk from Mexico to Canada along the West Coast’s mountainous spine. “The Stevens Pass is very smoky,” Hu said.
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Homemade monument marks northern end of fire-blocked Pacific Crest Trail

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By John Ryan Verified
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
By the time long-distance hiker Derek Hu reached Washington’s Stevens Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail, the engineer from Taiwan had crossed 2,467 miles of mountains, snowfields, forests, and deserts, starting at the border with Mexico. Smoke from the rapidly growing Little Giant Fire, just northeast of Stevens Pass, had led some hikers to abandon their quest to walk from Mexico to Canada along the West Coast’s mountainous spine. “The Stevens Pass is very smoky,” Hu said.
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Little Giant Fire spreads toward cabins, towns in Washington Cascades

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By John Ryan Verified
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
Each morning, a wave of firefighters has been coming into Plain Hardware in the tiny Cascades mountain town of Plain, Washington, for daily necessities. The main basecamp for fighting the Little Giant Fire, currently the state’s third-largest and the closest major fire to the Seattle area, is just up the road. Nearly 1,700 people are taking on the Little Giant.
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