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Cascade Pass part 6. Photo 1: We're above the clouds now. Photo 2: panorama of the top with glacier. Photo 3: an unexpected visit from a Search and Rescue helicopter alighting on Sahale Arm as I was descending. Fortunately no one was hurt; it was a practice maneuver.
This is one of the prettiest places in the Cascades; visit if you can (mid July-early October). But go on a weekday as it's very crowded especially in high season (August).
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Small helicopter on a treeless mountain ridge. Mist and cloud swirl around it as it's backlit by the sun. Hikers approach silhouetted against the light
Panorama taken with an iPhone showing 180
Degree view at the top. Small glacier on the left melting into a stream and a pool in the center foreground. A view off the mountain to the right showing row after row of mountains in the distance some with snow fields of their own.
Clouds flowing like a river through the valley while it's sunny up in the mountains
Cascade Pass part 6. Photo 1: We're above the clouds now. Photo 2: panorama of the top with glacier. Photo 3: an unexpected visit from a Search and Rescue helicopter alighting on Sahale Arm as I was descending. Fortunately no one was hurt; it was a practice maneuver.
This is one of the prettiest places in the Cascades; visit if you can (mid July-early October). But go on a weekday as it's very crowded especially in high season (August).
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Small helicopter on a treeless mountain ridge. Mist and cloud swirl around it as it's backlit by the sun. Hikers approach silhouetted against the light
Panorama taken with an iPhone showing 180
Degree view at the top. Small glacier on the left melting into a stream and a pool in the center foreground. A view off the mountain to the right showing row after row of mountains in the distance some with snow fields of their own.
Clouds flowing like a river through the valley while it's sunny up in the mountains
Cascade Pass part 5. It's autumn now and up in the meadows the blueberry foliage is turning red (photo 1). Photo 2: A lone scarlet paintbrush flower (Castilleja coccinea) is still holding out against the fall, surrounded by Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacia). Corn lilies are fading fast (the big leafed plant, Veratrum viride). Photo 3: there's a grouse in this photo, believe it or not. Sooty grouse? Ruffed grouse? I'm not sure.
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Blueberry and Heather plants near a shady portion of the trail. In the center is a chunky largish bird the size and shape of a chicken but with speckled plumage that camouflages it almost perfectly so it's difficult to see
A single bright red clover like flower in a wide swift of tiny white round flowers. Nearby a plant with large pleated leaves is turning yellow in the fall.
A mountainside in autumn. It's mostly above the tree line so only a few tiny conifers are visible. The slope is covered with heather and blueberries. The blueberry bushes are very short here not much higher than ground cover. The dominate is reddish as fall is here. In the distance are jagged peaks with a little snow and some puffy white clouds.
Cascade Pass part 4: At the top of the pass you can look East and see the Stehekin River which flows into the Columbia, while the water behind you flows West into Puget Sound. The clouds will burn off around midday and let you see the mountains. But the real fun comes when you ascend the Sahale Arm, leading up to Sahale Glacier and Peak. It's only two more miles (3.2km), but an additional 2200 (670m) feet elevation gain. Let's go. 4/7
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View from just a little way up Sahale Arm showing the clouds flowing through the valley like a river. Johannesburg Mountain, a huge peak with snowfields clinging to its steep
Sides, looms beyond.
Path leading away from arcade Pass to the East. The clouds are blowing through and obscure the trees nearby, which are hemlock trees, but through the mist you can see massive peaks beyond.
Cascade Pass part 3. Cascade Pass is like a vast funnel where moist air from the Pacific gets squeezed and pushed up into this gap between the mountains. It's right in the clouds and most of the year it's socked in like this. It's also quite windy, which you can tell by the way the way the trees lean. photo 2: Cascade mountain ash tree (Sorbus scopulina) in the fog. It's a close relative of the Rowan tree native to Europe and Asia. 3/7 #hiking #PNW #mountain #getoutside #nativeplants
A large shrub looms out of the fog Ali g the trail. It has small compound leaves, each leaflet oval shaped. Some leaves are yellowing because its fall. There are red berries on the end of each branch
A path in the mountains but it is so foggy all you can see is a dirt trail lined with stones leading into blank white nothing. On either side are small stunted co gets that lean to the uphill side, from the co start wind.
Cascade Pass part 2. Some plant life: photo 1-2: Parnassia fimbriata, new to me. Growing off a mossy rock, it's watered by the constant drip of water off the bluff above it. Sorry I missed the flowering stage. Photo 3: A saxifrage called Leptarrhena pyrolifolia, a favorite that I spot in cool damp rocky places all the time.
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A small plant with leathery ovate leaves, slightly shiny, with just the slightest serrations in the edges, in very pretty basal rosettes. Brown flower stems lift from the center of each rosette. It is growing beside a stone.
Closer view of the plant in photo 1. It looks like an undersea creature
A small plant growing on a mossy boulder. It has small round leaves and long stems that reach out from the rock like tentacles. Each holds a spent flower now becoming a seed bead
So the other day I went up to Cascade Pass, one of the premiere sights in the whole Pacific Northwest. It's pretty remote, even though it's in North Cascades National Park--you'll spend an hour going 26 miles on a one lane gravel road just to get to the trailhead. After that, the first leg looks mostly like this, over and over, for 4 miles (6.5 km) and climbing 1800 feet (550 meters). But it gets better. A lot better. A short thread.
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Cascading waterfalls with complementary electricity mast overlooking everything for @mastenton.
Sander Meijer
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Overnight hike to Elfin Lakes complete. What a beautiful place.
Overnight hike to Elfin Lakes complete. What a beautiful place.
Sander Meijer
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Ehemaliges Gletschergebiet mit Blick über Almen auf felsige Gipfel und stark bewölktem Himmel
Bergpanorama mit Blick von einer Holzbrücke rundum auf Almen und dem Bach beidseitig der Brücke
Aufstieg mit Blick über eine Steinbrücke und einem Berg Bach zum blauen Himmel
Bergpanorama mit felsigen Gipfeln rundum, einem 2m hohen Karabiner vorne und der Berghütte mittig
Ehemaliges Gletschergebiet mit Blick über Almen auf felsige Gipfel und stark bewölktem Himmel
Bergpanorama mit Blick von einer Holzbrücke rundum auf Almen und dem Bach beidseitig der Brücke
Aufstieg mit Blick über eine Steinbrücke und einem Berg Bach zum blauen Himmel
Bergpanorama mit felsigen Gipfeln rundum, einem 2m hohen Karabiner vorne und der Berghütte mittig
The King's Stage of our tour last week followed a route through various spectacular landscapes. Steep cliffs (lots of air underneath the shoes), purple and green rocks, plateaus followed by sudden steep descends and pretty much at the end we ended up at this wonderful place, which reminded me of the movie The Gorge.
https://trakt.tv/movies/the-gorge-2025
As in the movie, we too had to descend into the abyss (and as in the movie, we survived).😅
Rosskogel: Schreiender Wanderer aus Bayern verursacht Bergrettungseinsatz in Tirol
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Maybe an idea to place this sign more regularly when people keep ignoring closed trails.
For #MountainMonday this time the table mountain Kistenstöckli (2748m), local name Muot da Rubi. From the Bifertenhütte it is a mere 45 minutes climb, so perfect for an early morning hike, before starting the actual day trip.
Sander Meijer
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Passend zum #silentsunday durfte ich heute beim Abstieg von dem Zeinenfurgel (2434m) in den Glarner #Alpen diese eindrückliche quasi Mondlandschaft festhalten.
Dank des wechselhaften Wetters (jedoch kein Tropfen Regen!) kamen noch sehr eindrückliche Wolkenformationen hinzu, die diese Tour zusätzlich mit Schönheit würzten.
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