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After traveling through then night to reach Pendleton, I woke up the next morning to find my car covered in snow and more falling rapidly.
Conditions on the freeway were pretty dicey. The semi trucks were going slow and it was very treacherous to pass them.
Sometimes the semis passed each other which made for very exciting conditions.
The freeway going up the Blue Mountains is steep and impressively built. It closely follows the old Oregon Trail. A piece of a windmill was slowly laboring up the grade when we stopped at the viewpoint to check out the scenery.
Looking west, as the pioneers would have done.
The transition from western Oregon to eastern Oregon is quite stunning. We woke up to a dry and arid landscape in Pendleton.