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Day 8: Fish ladder at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #instagood #fishladder #salmon

Day 8: Impeller for electric turbine at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #instagood

Day 8: Worker on the elevator at Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Dam on the Columbia River. Dude’s got it going on. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #rockyreach #hydropower #columbiariver #roadtrip #beard #instagood

Day 8: Looks like rain. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad #americana

Day 8: A Horrible Beauty – A massive cloud of smoke rises from the Chelan Complex wildfires in Central Washington State. A few trees on the ridge line give a sense of the scale of this fire. This is a smaller complex of fires than the Okanogan Complex to the north where I was this …

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Day 8: Wish I’d had more time to hang out with John but had to deliver a motorcycle to the repair shop 75 miles down the road. As it was, I made it there 5 minutes before closing. I’ll be back to John’s though, sooner than later. He gave me three Walla Walla onions, a …

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Day 7: John dries a lot of food from his garden in a solar drier he built at his homestead in the Okanogan Valley. Gardening has to be done carefully since rattlesnakes come down out of the rocks into the garden starting in late spring, likely for water. The snakes came a month earlier this …

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Day 7: John Goss at his homestead in the Okanogan Valley of central Washington State. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad

Day 7: John Goss inside the home he built using earthtube construction. @itomhyde for @burndiary #photodiary #ontheroad

The home John Goss built for his mother in the Okanogan Valley of Washington State. Wildfire has burned through here twice in the past, once over the home itself. The earth tube construction, using the earth on site, some cement and bags, provides a relatively fire safe home. #photodiary #ontheroad