Ghost power

Smoke!  What smoke?  Near Grand Coulee Dam

An earlier stop along the Wenatchee River

SPOKANE, WA - - We left Anacortes under hazy conditions...hazy, as in smokey.  It was a given that heading East toward Montana the air quality would NOT improve.  We didn't figure it would get this bad. 
     In the second picture, a forest fire a couple of years ago is still evident by the dead-fall trees which did not completely burn to cinders.  Farther down the road, the smokey haze really settled in. 
     In photo one, visibility, at this point, is about half a mile.  If what you're looking at is big and has a recognizable outline.  Generally, at about a quarter mile,  you begin to identify objects better.  At 100 yards and closer, objects (like cars and pickups) are/were much easier to check out..  Fortunately, while the road was rolling, it was generally straight.