Crap - I love the town of Winthrop. Great little mountain community - there was an awesome blacksmith (DJ Stull - here is the website of one of his students) there for a long long time. There is a glass artist in the same spot now - really good but not the same. From The Seattle Times:
Like Mordor: A Central Washington town had the worst air quality in the U.S.
The air quality in Central Washington’s Winthrop was so bad Thursday that the National Weather Service of Spokane compared it to Mordor, the evil realm of a dark wizard in “Lord of the Rings.”
Thanks to several fires burning in Okanogan County, Winthrop had the worst air quality in the country Thursday morning, according to Air Quality Index’s real-time map.
One of my managers is camping there this weekend - their favorite campground burned in the fire so they are playing it by ear.
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