This stretch of road might not be recognizable here, but many Seattle area recreational cyclists have no doubt ridden it.

This is a WSDOT photo of Route 202 between Fall City and Snoqualmie Falls taken Thursday after the ice storm swept through the area. (See a summer-time photo below.)

That icy coating followed a snowstorm that already had caused chaos on Puget Sound area roads. In addition to the slick road conditions, the freezing rain on top of snow weighed down trees that toppled across power lines and onto roads.

The conditions here led to the closure of Route 202 ...