My brother and I reconnected on a backpacking trip in North Cascades National Park in the summer of 2013. It had been over 40 years since we had last backpacked together, and we sure picked the best place for the event. Words cannot describe the awe we felt at the magnificent scenery of this backpackers’ park. This picture shows my brother at the top of Easy Pass about to descend into the incomparable Fisher Basin.
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North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park Service Complex encompasses 684,000 acres of wilderness, trails and rivers, as well as Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. In this vast terrain are jagged mountains, hundreds of glaciers and old-growth forests that have never been cut, with large, magnificent trees and tiered canopies of fir, hemlock and cedar. The snowy winters at this park produce stunning waterfalls in the spring — a phenomenon that is so beloved, the Cascade Range is named for them.
State(s): Washington
Established: 1968
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Greetings from North Cascades National Park
When my family and I made the long trip to North Cascades National Park, I was shocked by how green the water was. We hiked on the Thunder Knob Trail and crossed Thunder Creek on a thin metal bridge. The water below was a milky turquoise, which I later learned…
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Greetings from North Cascades National Park
I am a traveller..at least that's what I tell myself. I went for a sunrise experience at North Cascades National Park. It never disappointed me before. This time also I was lucky to capture some awesome nature in its glory.
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Greetings from North Cascades National Park
In 1978, I got the opportunity of a lifetime to be a SCA volunteer in NCNP, 2,400 miles from where I grow up in Ohio. That amazing summer was followed up with six more summers in NCNP and two in Mount Rainier National Park as a backcountry ranger. Nine absolutely…
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