Cascade Pass (pics)

NorthCascades

This is my favorite trail, the only one I do every year. I took a buddy from work up Saturday. We saw a mountain goat on the Sahale Arm and a large black bear near the trail to Pelton Basin. In all, we did about 10 miles with 2,000 feet of vert.





There's a calendar contest I enter every year, I think this is going to be one of my entries:

cmriverside

oooh. Beautiful.

I think I like the last pic the best, with the rocky trail. The composition on that one and the first one are really nicely balanced.

Thanks!

jdubois5351

Wow, stunning! You are lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world! Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures

middlehaitch

Hooray, you have been on a ride.
I hope you are feeling less anxious now you are getting out.

The scenery is beautiful.

The 2nd pic is my favourite, nice balance and colour contrast.

Cheers, h.

hesn92

You are lucky to live near such a beautiful place. I live in Kansas City and it’s just dirty and gross.

InfiniteInnerBeauty9190

So beautiful!

ttippie2000

Although there are no trails, there is a mountaineering route from Cascade pass to nearby Trapper Lake. It’s absolutely beautiful. ‘Cept maybe for the marmot that chased me away from his den, the grizzly bear that went through our neighboring campers’ campsite, and the after dark repelling we wound up doing the first trip before we got the route right. Oops.

There were no dull moments on Cascade Pass for us. There was a climber killed on the ptarmigan traverse right as we passed over cascade pass. Rockfall. There was even a surgeon in the climbing party...to no avail. I guess they airlifted the surgeon over to treat a climber who had fallen into the bergshrund at the top of Sahale Arm and broke his leg (wedged with water draining on him).

I still remember the thunderous sound of semi-truck pieces of ice breaking off the hanging glaciers and crashing into the valley below.

Purplebunnysarah

Gorgeous!