My plan was to ride from home on Bainbridge Island to Stevens Pass and back for a good long climb. Unfortunately, the smoke from the fires in eastern Washington made the air thick and hazy. It seemed to get worse the further east I rode. I turned around in Sultan, just a little past the halfway point.
Sultan is and old logging and gold mining town established at the confluence of the Sultan and Skykomish Rivers in the 1880’s. Today the population is a little over 4500. Most weekends, streams of slow moving traffic creep through Sultan along U.S. 2, one of the few roads leading to passes over the Cascade mountains.