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Off the Rails: The Wellington Avalanche
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It is the winter of 1910, and travelers are attempting to cross what we now know as Stevens Pass. At the time, the only way to move somewhat safely through the mountains, especially in winter, was by train. One such group is forced to stop when a brutal storm sets in… and then the unthinkable happens. The deadliest avalanche in the region comes crashing down on the stranded travelers, plunging the night into chaos, and just days later, a second avalanche strikes a few miles north in Canada, as if the mountains themselves aren’t finished yet.
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Introduction to 'Beneath the Evergreens'
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to Beneath the Evergreens, where murder, mysteries, and mayhem lurk in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. I'm Jess. And I'm Anna. From haunted forests and unsolved disappearances, to true crime cases buried deep in the moss and the mist, we're digging into the dark secrets hiding under the evergreens. Each episode will explore real cases, eerie encounters, and the legends that keep the Pacific Northwest up at night.
00:00:26
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So grab your flashlight, lock your doors, and join us Beneath the Evergreens.
Protests and Youth Activism
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Speaker
Welcome, everyone. Welcome. i' excited for your story today. I need a good i need a good story. Jess, how are you doing today? I'm doing i'm doing okay I feel like the world is burning a little bit, but I have some hope. I feel like my heart goes out to Minnesota, but I was...
00:01:11
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For the past couple months, I've been in this funk of man, where are we going? I don't feel like anyone cares. This is wild. But after seeing all the protests and even seeing high school students get engaged, I'm hopeful for the future. It's given me a little more hope and I really appreciate that.
00:01:25
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Absolutely. i I feel like as a as a community, we're kind of making the best of a shitty situation and just a horribly, horribly wrong situation. yeah And yeah, same, I'm very impressed and very proud of people that are standing up and, and you know, fighting against this.
00:01:43
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It gives me hope that, you know, we're going to make it out the other side. Also, it's pretty remarkable how the younger generation is really standing up as well. I don't think if I was in a high school or middle school, like my child's age, I don't think that was ever on my radar.
00:02:02
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oh yeah. I think I had a general idea, but I don't think I ever cared enough to go out and protest. And I don't know if that is symbolic of how treacherous the times are or how mature these kids are, but I'm in awe yeah of how they're there. Yeah.
00:02:16
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I'm incredibly impressed, but also incredibly sad that the state of the world necessitates kids doing these things, you know, yeah. I feel like there's something very pure about childhood. And I think that children should be sheltered from a lot of things when can't, when they can, but when the world is doing things, not in the world, our country is doing things like, yeah, just a very impressed, but very, very saddened that this is putting our kids in this position.
00:02:44
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Totally agree. And totally agree that it's unacceptable for any child to be used as bait as well. I'm just to put that out there. I know this isn't a political podcast, but I feel like it's, you got, you got to draw the line somewhere and that's, yes, I don't know too far.
00:03:05
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Anyways, excited for your story.
Historical Rail Travel in the Pacific Northwest
00:03:07
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bet it's going to a banger. Well, so I'm going a little bit of a different route for this week's story. yeah So this is going to diverge a little bit from our normal content. It's not going to be super eerie. It's not to be super mysterious. It's just this kind of a strange coincidence, I noticed, as a weird historical event in the Pacific Northwest.
00:03:28
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I'm excited. Okay. So little we're going to set the scene a little bit. 1910s in the pacific northwest so okay washington oregon canada and this time west coast is pretty pretty rural at this point right there's not a ton going on we have a lot of people traveling over to the west coast specifically using trains that's one of the main modes of transportation from eastern washington eastern canada into the western part of the state and when people were going over via railroads they had to go through a lot of mountain passes
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For anyone that's not familiar with the terrain of the Pacific Northwest, the Cascade Mountains essentially run from and they run from Canada all the way down to Mexico, essentially. but they do divide Washington and Oregon kind of in half. They're a geographic landmark, but also a bit of a cultural landmark as well. I feel like the culture in you Western Washington versus Eastern Washington is very, very different. For sure. yeah I mean, it wasn't for a while there, they were trying, the East half of Washington wanted to become its own state. Yes. Yes. Yeah.
00:04:31
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Which kind of makes sense. I mean, yeah. So yes, again, so the Cascade mountains were, a couple states in half and order to get from western washington to eastern washington you have to go through mountain passes there's a handful of ones that have been carved in washington the largest one is stoke-walmy pass but then further north you also have stevens pass which kind of takes you up kind of for those familiar everett wenatchee kind of area and when you go up these passes it's I mean, it's treacherous in today's times. especially in the wintertime, the pass is closed. There's too much snow. People that aren't familiar with driving are just skidding all over the place.
00:05:09
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It's really unsafe now. So if we're flashing back to 1910, it is just as just as unsafe, probably even more unsafe
The 1910 Wellington Avalanche
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at that time. Because you really only have railroads coming through. And all these passes are specifically designed for railroads, not cars or anything like that.
00:05:24
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Yeah. So... In 1910, the well North America saw two of the biggest avalanches that we've ever seen and we haven't we've seen since.
00:05:36
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Yes, they. both Yeah. yeah When I was researching a kind of fun tangent, but I found out about the one in Washington and then I saw a little tidbit about a similar one in Canada.
00:05:46
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And it took place at the same time. So I don't know if there was something really horrible about the winter of 1910. I'm imagining that there was. yeah But yeah. Maybe that's the emergence of Sasquatch. That's what happened. There you go.
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Okay. But within three days, two of the deadliest avalanches in North America took place. That's scary. Yeah. So we're going to start with the one in Washington. So this took place in Wellington, Washington. Which you have probably never heard of.
00:06:18
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Never. It is a ghost town now. There's nothing there. In 1900, it was literally just a railroad town. So you had some bunk houses, some rest stops, but people weren't spending much time there. You were, if you worked for the railroad, you're maybe staying there, but that was about it. Okay.
00:06:33
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So we had two trains that were coming, basically crossing the mountain pass near Wellington.
00:06:42
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in this, of late February day. And the weather started to kind of took a, took a turn for the worst. It wasn't too bad leaving Spokane, but it got pretty harsh, harsh once they were like in the middle, Stevens Pass, well we iss what's now known as Stevens Pass.
00:06:55
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so we had two trains that had to stop in Wellington for the night. people basically were just stuck on the train. Some of the crew were staying in bunk houses. but they were just trying to wait out the weather. The, there had been snow covering the,
00:07:09
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the tracks And the idea was, hey, this can't last forever. Once it guess gets a little bit warmer, it'll melt enough that we can continue on to Seattle with no issues. Right. So this train, I imagine everyone sitting on that train thought day, maybe two max. Right. It can't be that bad.
00:07:27
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yeah They waited for six days. Six full days when they're still, yes, still stuck in Wellington. And at this point, resources are starting to dwindle, right? Because you're stuck with it. You can't have other trains come and bring you food or sustenance. You're just, excuse me, waiting it out.
00:07:44
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You have a lot of these people sitting there. And then on March 1st, six days after they started, in the middle of the night, an avalanche came down and just completely took out these two trains.
00:07:59
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Just completely. Oh my God. Yeah. Completely envelop them with snow. i have a couple of quotes from one, a railroad employee, and then a second one from one of the survivors of the, of the avalanche.
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One of the great Northern employees, Charles Andrew said, White death moving down the mountainside above the trains. Relentlessly it advanced, exploding, roaring, rumbling, grinding, snapping. A crescendo of sound that might have been the crashing of 10,000 freight trains.
00:08:29
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It descended to the ledge where the sidetracks lay. Picked up cars and equipment as though there were so many snow-draped toys and swallowing them up.
00:08:40
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Disappeared a white broad monster into the ravine below. Okay, first of all... People in 1910 had a way of talking yeah and and painting a picture with their words that is unparalleled.
00:08:55
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That sounds like literally a tsunami, a snow tsunami. Yeah. That's so scary. Right? And especially with, I don't know too much about avalanches, but I've, everyone, feel lot people that I know to go skiing and mountaineering and things like that. Yeah. And just in the flick of a switch, an avalanche can start, right? you have one rock move in a weird way. And then you just have all this snow tumbling down, just completely captivating anything.
00:09:21
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And you can't move. Like I could not imagine sitting there hearing the thunder that and just watching this wall of snow. That is, that would be so scary. Right. One of the survivors did say that there was an electric storm raging at the time of the avalanche. Lightning flashes were vivid and a tearing wind was howling down the canyon. Suddenly there was a dull roar and the sleeping men and women felt the passenger coast coaches lifted and borne along.
00:09:48
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When the coaches reached the steep de declivity, declativity, can't say that word very well. 1910, 1910. got the vocab for days. Yeah.
00:09:59
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oh When the coaches reached the steep declivity, they were rolled nearly 1,000 feet and buried under 40 feet of snow. Which is crazy because you know no one had a seatbelt on.
00:10:11
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Oh, gosh, no. Because they'd been sitting there for six days, right? Yeah. I imagine the thought is, oh, well, we've been stuck here. it must be getting better. It can't be getting that much worse. Oh, my God. Yes.
00:10:23
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96 people died in this crash. Again, one of the most deadly one railroad incidents and avalanche incident incidences in the north in North America.
00:10:35
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ninety six people that is That's a lot of people. Oh, my gosh. That's terrifying. Right? Yeah. Just yeah completely out of nowhere. So word got back to Seattle and Spokane about this horrible, horrible, horrible disaster. And that's when the name Wellington started becoming so closely tied to this avalanche and just all the destruction that it caused that the town actually changed its name Tyre. to try to like sever, sever those ties.
The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche
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Yeah.
00:11:03
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Oh, so went from Willamette. Willamette to tie. Yeah. of However, it's quite switch, right? That's like a lot of letters to no letters.
00:11:15
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Interesting. Okay. It's very profound. don't know why that fascinates me so much. is's really not something to fascinate. Anyways. But the town, obviously, that much destruction and it wasn't very big and big to begin with, it's now just kind of a ghost town.
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yeah So next time you're up near Highway 2 and you you can find the Iron Goat Trail, and that'll take you right through where Wellington once was. Iron Goat Trail. i mean Let's put that on the road trap. The road trap? Road trap.
00:11:44
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oh the road trip that is i've never heard of this mean neith me neither neither but with how destructive it was i would have thought that more people would have been aware of it at least in some capacity especially a whole train picked up and thrown essentially yeah that's insane right well that's when it gets a little bit worse so that was march 1st this took place so people are just kind of reeling especially in washington But in 1910, we're going to travel quite as fast as it does nowadays.
00:12:17
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Yeah. So we're going to now move up to Canada, up to British Columbia and Rogers Pass, which is just west of Banff, if you're familiar with kind of that area. Still mountains, similar mountain range to the Cascades, kind of actually the same mountain range. And on March 4th, so three days after the Wellington avalanche took place,
00:12:41
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And there was another avalanche in Rogers Pass. So there's a passenger train that was stuck in Rogers Pass in Canada. And it was basically unable to move any further because the tracks recovered similar to what happened in Washington.
00:12:56
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However, in this case, there was another train full of working men that was able to come from the opposite direction to try to dig out the tracks so that the passenger train could could get by.
00:13:08
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However, they were well so they were digging out the tracks. They're kind of making a bit of a trench off to the side. kind of like Making sure it was clear enough that they could completely get through. and then out As they were digging out this trench, an avalanche hit. and Basically, all the men that were working to clear the way, they got kind of thrown into this trench and buried with snow.
00:13:30
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In this case, 58 men died. The passenger train, thankfully, was fine. It wasn't impacted nearly as much, but all the men that had come to save the passenger train perished.
00:13:44
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That's got to be one of the worst ways to go. Like being buried alive would suck, but being buried alive in freezing snow. Right. Right. Just absolutely horrific.
00:13:54
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And especially when you're already there, cause you kind you kind of know some risks, right? Oh, it's winter. We're up here. we're trying, we want to save people. We want to help out others.
00:14:04
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And then, yeah, you just... Then the unthinkable happens? Mm-hmm. Yikes. There's now a monument that stands in Rogers Pass to commemorate these men and all the brave work they did to try to help out during this winter storm. And one of the really interesting things I found while researching the Rogers Pass avalanche was that there was a lot of men from a lot of different areas that were...
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killed as part of this this avalanche. They'd all come from, they'd come really all over the world to work in Canada on the railroad. There are people from the UK, I believe Japan, other parts of Europe yeah that were all kind of commemorated in this monument that now stands there.
00:14:47
Speaker
Yeah, so very interesting. It sounds like the, honestly, the Canadians have done a really good job of commemorating exactly what happened and really noting the sacrifice that they did. Which is an interesting contrast in my mind to what we're seeing with the Wellington avalanche. Because it was i've now I've never heard about it at all.
00:15:03
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Yes. And I don't know. I haven't even heard of well wilming Wellington or whatever the hell. Right? That's crazy. yeah And you don't even name the trail that leads through that. in memoriam or something like that? Yeah.
00:15:15
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. Go Canada. But we always knew Canada was better than us, quite frankly. Yes. But... one interesting thing and kind of in the aftermath of all of this destruction is that in both in both areas uh rogers pass and kind of stevens passioner stevens pass near wellington tunnels were actually constructed in response so that when avalanches do convert or do occur or when snow just starts falling the railroads won't be quite as impacted by it
00:15:47
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hopefully to stop any cars from having to stop and having to just wait out a storm so they can keep moving on and get safely to their desk to their rest destination. That's smart. i yeah I couldn't imagine being trapped in a train for multiple days on end. The amount of stir craziness that was probably going on and people get, when your travel plans get delayed,
00:16:13
Speaker
It can out the worst in people. I know when my travel plans get messed up a little bit, I'm not the nicest person in the world. I could not imagine being stuck for six days. Do you think that back in 1910, though, people were a little bit more lenient with things like this? I feel in modern day, we have this expectation of things need to be on time, perfect, because we have all this technology and all these things that make it so much easier to do things. But back then, it's like, oh, well, this is my only way to get from east side of the state to the west side. yeah, it's annoying, but it is what it is, you know?
00:16:46
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I think that's a good point. Yeah, because today it's go, go, go, go. go go We got to go to the next place. But yeah, back then, it did take you three weeks to get somewhere. And that was just what it was.
00:16:58
Speaker
i don't know. I think, i feel like there would still be a little bit, not necessarily a panic, because if your food supplies start to dwindle yes and it's cold, I feel like that would be I don't know.
00:17:10
Speaker
I don't know. I would like to think that back in 1910, we were all nice and happy people and we're probably holding hands and singing Kumbaya.
00:17:19
Speaker
That's wild. Right. Yeah. It was fascinating to me, especially because like, I spent quite a bit of time up near like that area and I've like, i't I didn't, I haven't seen any like memorials or any like, yeah, like dedications or anything like that. either but there is a a movie actually coming out about the rogers past avalanche that looks like some independent filmmakers in canada are putting together going into even more detail about what occurred and kind of highlighting that the bravery and the the the casualties which that's cool right yeah like that i
00:17:56
Speaker
I always knew that the passes were, i mean, they're tricky. Even when you're in a car, in the blink of an eye, stuff can go sideways. But I don't know why I never really thought about railroads going through there and what they have to go through to actually make it and never actually thought about that and that would kind of be terrifying because i when i see railroad tracks here they're kind of just cut higgledy piggledy like sometimes they're like on the side of the cliff sometimes they're in these weird places and man i didn't even think to get stuck in one and then it also in treacherous weather that'd be a nightmare yeah i always think of the the polar express i know seen that
00:18:39
Speaker
I love the Polar Express. Yes. When it starts, like, it's going up the mountain and then, like, starts sliding and then you're, like, on the face of the mountain. Like, that's what I – obviously, it's exaggerated. That's kind of what I imagine railroads were back in the day, especially because there were so many and their had that had to be the main source of transportation, right? It's had mass amounts of people and goods moving, but they were constantly in use. And, yeah, just any kind of, like, treacherous conditions were just stopping – your life essentially. Like you people can't move, goods can't move.
00:19:13
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And then it's also the train has so much momentum. Like to stop a train. Yeah. Is a feat of, of God, essentially. like To stop that thing on like a moment's notice, that if something was to happen, that's not going to be a quick a quick thing. That's interesting. Yeah, I've never heard of this before, and I'm surprised that it's not known more, especially if it's now a
Commemoration and Prevention Efforts
00:19:36
Speaker
ghost town. You would think more people would hear about it and want to go check it out, but interesting. I feel like Washington has a lot of ghost towns. like I feel like there's just so many that some kind of get lost You know, 1000%. Yeah. That two shot, two saddles treasure, what I was talking about. Yeah. There was a ghost town associated with that one. And I actually did like a ghost town tour with my parents when I was younger. And there's, I mean, within a six hour drive, you can probably hit at least seven or eight in, at least on the East side. I'm not sure about here, but on the East side, there's a ton.
00:20:15
Speaker
I feel like that makes sense. You have people like you had railroad towns, you had like kind of like gold rush stopping places, just industry coming over here. And yeah, you just couldn't couldn't sustain that many smaller towns or they were useful for a period and then kind of lost people lost interest. Yeah. I wonder if they have that, if they have similar, a similar amount of ghost towns on the East coast or if it's more of a specific West coast, newer thing.
00:20:44
Speaker
I don't know. Whenever I think of the East coast, I think I'm like so fixated on the huge, massive towns. i always think they're like so overly populated, but I mean, I heard upstate New York is pretty densely forested. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of ghost towns, but I lived on the East coast for a little bit. And, I was telling my, my husband about, you know, the, like,
00:21:08
Speaker
Philadelphia and DC and how close they were. And he had this image of his head of like the entire East coast being like one big city or like just big city, big city, to big city. yeah And then we went over there a couple of years ago and he was like,
00:21:21
Speaker
why can't I see so many trees? Like, why is there it so like empty over here? I think that's what I think of too, is like, there's New York city and then there's Boston and then there's, well, I think DC is somewhere smashed in there too. And then there's like Baltimore, but there's so much more to these States. It's probably how someone thinks of Washington where it's like, Oh, it's Seattle.
00:21:44
Speaker
And it's like, no, actually there's a lot, there's a lot more, a lot more than just that. but Yeah.
00:21:51
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I'm also just fascinated with how big the United States is. This is totally irrelevant to the conversation we're having, but I like a three hour drive for us is a Saturday. Yeah.
00:22:03
Speaker
But if you think about like a three hour drive in like England, that's almost their entire continent. Isn't it? Yes. i don't know how long it would take. a Continent isn't the right word, but their Island, their Island, the Island that they live on, the thing that floats in the sea. Yeah.
00:22:23
Speaker
no it is it is insane trains are scary have you ever been on like a cross-country train i've taken a train from central pennsylvania to philadelphia and it was like an amtrak train yeah it was honestly i really liked it because there was so much leg room like i love it i don't have very long legs but like i could like stick my whole leg out in front of me it was so comfortable That sounds amazing. I've only been on like an Amtrak from like to Seattle, going to Seattle from somewhere. So it's only been like, i don't know, 45 minute train ride or whatever.
00:23:01
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But they're kind of nice. But when they break down, it's a whole thing. It's a whole to do. My sister once took a train from Chicago to central Pennsylvania. And she got stopped in like a field in like Western PA for hours.
00:23:21
Speaker
And just nightmare. Yeah. Like there' something was wrong with the brakes. So they were like, Oh, we can't fix it. So we're just going to sit here. And it was already like a long train ride. And it just added like three hours to it. Yeah. There was one. Okay. So this is completely besides the point. One time when I was in Disneyland, me, my mom and my daughter went on this, it's like a circus ride and it's a train. And one of the cars you get essentially like locked in this cage Well, while we were on this ride, we got put into this cage. And then it broke down. Oh, my gosh.
00:23:53
Speaker
And so we're locked in this cane cage of a train. And we cannot get out. And there's nothing more panic-inducing than being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no end in sight. You're just like, so I'm just chilling here now? I'm just stuck. I'm held captive. and you know yeah yeah Do I need to change my identity? What's happening here? Like...
00:24:15
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I
Forgetting Historical Disasters
00:24:15
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cannot imagine. And then having that end with just some railway worker seeing your train car be swallowed up by snow and then like launched. hoof That's a lot.
00:24:27
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I don't like it. I really love your equation of being stuck in an avalanche to a Disneyland ride. Same, same. So relatable. I love it.
00:24:39
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so My brain. The connections it makes. It's wonderful. oh Yeah, I don't know. Now I'm kind of scared to go on the train.
00:24:49
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love it. Okay, well, thank you for the wonderful story. That is, I'm actually kind of concerned. right I wonder how many more natural disasters just get swept under the rug. Like, this is, i was trying to emphasize this, but like, yeah we this is the most deadly like avalanche in US s history. And we have heard nothing about it.
00:25:10
Speaker
wait That is, i mean, it's almost kind of scary. Because if we don't, if we've lost something that significant, what else have we lost in history?
Climate Change and Environmental Observations
00:25:22
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Right. And like, the part that kills me is like, these were the two biggest avalanches in North America. And they happened three days apart. like that this I feel like that should be a bigger like historical event, you know?
00:25:36
Speaker
i wonder if there's like some weird tectonic... Well, it's particularly creepy, too, because it's about this time. And right now, we have these like polar vortexes or whatever that are like essentially making ice cubes of the entire East Coast. yeah I wonder if something similar was happening, but on the West Coast. Right?
00:25:53
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I mean, also the other... Yeah. How... global warming has shifted the climate over here so much like we don't get snow like that these like the mountains are almost bare this time of year and like yeah in march you're telling me there's an avalanche like if we get so snow on the like in seattle in like if we don't feel like we don't get snow by the end of january we're not getting snow at all yeah I also remember talking to like my mom, for instance, she grew up in, she can remember that in the summer times, there would be like a month, maybe two, where it would be so quote summertime.
00:26:34
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But the max temp would be maybe 90. That's the max. Yeah. Now, our summers, as they pretty much start, what, end of May? Yeah, June, June-ish, yeah.
00:26:46
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And then by July, we're already like mid 90s. Yeah. And there's been a couple times where it's like in the hundreds, which I don't remember from even my childhood. No, that that was. No, my my dad also grew up in the area and he remember he written like last like five years has been like, huh, I feel like we should probably get AC.
00:27:04
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Like he's never wanted AC in his entire life. But like now it's getting to be warm for a long enough amount of time that it's like this is actually really uncomfortable. Yeah.
00:27:15
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And it's kind of scary. And then also Mount Rainier, it's just something that is geographically close to kind of where I am, or at least that's the mountain that I can see the best. And I remember year round, it would always have some white on it. yes It would always, this summer, I remember looking at it and there was no white.
00:27:33
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Like I was confused if I was looking at Mount Rainier or not. I was like, wait, did I lose? Yeah. And it's kind of scary because Mount Rainier is what essentially is our water source. Yes. Yes.
00:27:44
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No, I remember, I think it was the summer, remember like four or five years ago where it was like, it was really hot. Like it was like 107 or something for a couple of days. I remember later on that summer looking at Matt Rainier and there were like massive bald spots where like, yes, I could see rock and I'd never seen rock there before.
00:28:03
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I know. who and i was like It's It's really terrifying. And then and it's it seems to be speeding up instead of slowing down. And it's great and then you have thing like all of the flooding that was going on, all that other kind of stuff. It just seems to be amping up. Oh, yeah.
00:28:21
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And I don't think any of us are prepared for no for what that looks like.
Wellington Site Visit and Bigfoot Hunting
00:28:24
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No. There's almost supposed to be like 60 degrees in this area next week. It's supposed to be warm. Which is crazy. February.
00:28:33
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supposed to feel my teeth. I'm not supposed to feel my feet.
00:28:39
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Get that sense dying. I'm actually shocked that we don't know more about this. that I feel like we need to make our own movie about what happened. Yes.
00:28:49
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Honestly, I think i really want to add this to the road trip because thought like that'd be a super cool stop. somewhere you probably have to hike quite a ways to it but we can combine it with like our our bigfoot hunting excursions yeah that i haven't told you about yet but has been planned in the back of my head i feel like that area is just it's known for bigfoot like we i was up there recently and stopped at this really cool espresso stand that had like bigfoot everything And I thought it was funny because it was right after my wedding. And I was like, I don't really want to think about Jesse right now. butdding
00:29:21
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Why am I thinking about Jesse right now? That's really creepy. Bigfoot is my jam. When I went to Forks, they have this big Bigfoot statue and they made it look super creepy. And I made like a sticker out of it. And sometimes I'll randomly send it to people. So just be on the lookout because I'm go to be sending that your way probably soon.
Conclusion and Listener Invitation
00:29:42
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00:29:53
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Thanks for joining us on beneath the evergreens. We appreciate you diving into the mysteries with us until next time. Keep your eyes open and your doors locked and maybe join a snowball fight.