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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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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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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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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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
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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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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Study co-led by ICN2 reveals that #ice is a #flexoelectric material meaning it can produce #electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological implications while also shedding light on natural phenomena such as #lightning. Frozen water is one of the most abundant substances on #Earth. It is found in #glaciers, on #mountain peaks and in #polar ice caps. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html
Study co-led by ICN2 reveals that #ice is a #flexoelectric material meaning it can produce #electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological implications while also shedding light on natural phenomena such as #lightning. Frozen water is one of the most abundant substances on #Earth. It is found in #glaciers, on #mountain peaks and in #polar ice caps. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html
Guten Morgen allerseits! 😀 👋
Zum #MountainMonday heute ein Foto des schönen Matterhorns (4.478 m) im schweizerischen Wallis, aufgenommen vom Oberrothorn (3.414 m) aus. Ganz klein sieht man unten einen Paraglider.
Einen guten und ruhigen Start in die neue Woche für uns alle!
#schweiz #suisse #matterhorn #wallis #mountain #berge #alpine #wandern #hiking #landscape #landschaft #natur #nature #naturephotography #fotografie #photography#Photographie #foto #landscapephotography
Guten Morgen allerseits! 😀 👋
Zum #MountainMonday heute ein Foto des schönen Matterhorns (4.478 m) im schweizerischen Wallis, aufgenommen vom Oberrothorn (3.414 m) aus. Ganz klein sieht man unten einen Paraglider.
Einen guten und ruhigen Start in die neue Woche für uns alle!
#schweiz #suisse #matterhorn #wallis #mountain #berge #alpine #wandern #hiking #landscape #landschaft #natur #nature #naturephotography #fotografie #photography#Photographie #foto #landscapephotography
live look at tahoma https://flic.kr/p/2rmrUnf #rainier #seattle #tahoma #mountain #photography #pentax
Heading up the 3rd Burroughs Mountain below #MountRainier for #footpathfriday or is it #FridayFootPath ? #pnw #hiking #mountain #footpath
Heading up the 3rd Burroughs Mountain below #MountRainier for #footpathfriday or is it #FridayFootPath ? #pnw #hiking #mountain #footpath
Rückblick | Review 29/07/2022
Zuerst hatte ich zu Hause um 1 Uhr morgens ein paar Aufnahmen der Milchstrasse gemacht aber bemerkt, dass ich weiter Richtung Interlaken das Zentrum über dem Niesen haben könnte. So habe ich mich auf das Fahrrad geschwungen und zwischen Gunten und Merligen hatte ich das Bild, das mir vorschwebte - gegen 2 Uhr morgens.
#NikonZ6#NikonZ#Nikon Z 6 | 20mm | f/1.4 | 6s | 29/07/2022
#hess_photography #photography #fotografie#BernerOberland #galaxy#KantonBern#LakeThun#Milchstrasse #milkyway #mountain#Niesen #night#Schweiz#Spiez#Switzerland#Thunersee
Rückblick | Review 29/07/2022
Zuerst hatte ich zu Hause um 1 Uhr morgens ein paar Aufnahmen der Milchstrasse gemacht aber bemerkt, dass ich weiter Richtung Interlaken das Zentrum über dem Niesen haben könnte. So habe ich mich auf das Fahrrad geschwungen und zwischen Gunten und Merligen hatte ich das Bild, das mir vorschwebte - gegen 2 Uhr morgens.
#NikonZ6#NikonZ#Nikon Z 6 | 20mm | f/1.4 | 6s | 29/07/2022
#hess_photography #photography #fotografie#BernerOberland #galaxy#KantonBern#LakeThun#Milchstrasse #milkyway #mountain#Niesen #night#Schweiz#Spiez#Switzerland#Thunersee
I wanted to share this gem for the #sunset FotoVorschlag the other day, but there are #mountains on the horizon, so I saved it for #MountainMonday instead. When you live far away from mountains and the sea, you need to hold on to those treasured memories for Mondays and Wednesdays 😂😛
So yeah, this was a magical sunset in #Vergne in autumn, one of our first stops on our European tour in 2017/18.
#Sonnenuntergang #silhouette #mountain#Berg#Berge#Barolo#Himmel #sky#dramaticSky#Abendhimmel #skyPorn#redSky#pinkSky #nature#Natur #landscape #landscapePhotography #twilight #dusk#blueHour#blaueStunde#Piemont#Piedmont#Piemonte#Langhe#Italien#Italy#Italia
I wanted to share this gem for the #sunset FotoVorschlag the other day, but there are #mountains on the horizon, so I saved it for #MountainMonday instead. When you live far away from mountains and the sea, you need to hold on to those treasured memories for Mondays and Wednesdays 😂😛
So yeah, this was a magical sunset in #Vergne in autumn, one of our first stops on our European tour in 2017/18.
#Sonnenuntergang #silhouette #mountain#Berg#Berge#Barolo#Himmel #sky#dramaticSky#Abendhimmel #skyPorn#redSky#pinkSky #nature#Natur #landscape #landscapePhotography #twilight #dusk#blueHour#blaueStunde#Piemont#Piedmont#Piemonte#Langhe#Italien#Italy#Italia