Tipis with smoke curling from the smoke-holes can be seen on the reservation and off. Sooner or later most of us cope with conditions unimagined by urban folks. Thirty-mile drives to the nearest store are common and some in the remotest spots drive twice as far. Several of the longest school-bus routes in the country are in the Okanogan. Winter travel can be an adventure with occasional arctic outbreaks that bring wind-chills of eighty below.
Summer can be as hot as any desert in the southwest.
And sometimes a hundred-mile trip to Wenatchee is the only way to get something that would be around the corner in the city. But you don't hear many complaints. For our pains we get to live in one of the most beautiful, varied and uncrowded places left. Come see for yourself.