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Featured In: Day Hiking: North Cascades , by Craig Romano . Buy the full book, including maps, elevation profiles, photos, and more: » REI » Amazon A portion of all book sales from the links above benefits WTA and helps protect and maintain our trails. Among the many supreme North Cascades Highway hikes, the Maple Pass loop is perhaps the most exalted.
Heather - Maple Pass Loop
Expand report text Hide report text For a short North Cascades fall spectacular, Blue Lake is a sweetie. We may have caught the tail en... For a short North Cascades fall spectacular, Blue Lake is a sweetie. We may have caught the tail end of indian summer with our October 6 day hike. Spectacular yellow larches dominate most of the hike, with the best shows being on the hillside to your left just before you enter the Blue Lake basin (which you can hike up into and is lovely in its own right.)
Blue Lake
Featured In: Day Hiking: North Cascades , by Craig Romano . Buy the full book, including maps, elevation profiles, photos, and more: » REI » Amazon A portion of all book sales from the links above benefits WTA and helps protect and maintain our trails. Rugged and spectacular-yes. Gothic, perhaps, for this stark and mysterious basin harbors hidden tarns and disappearing waterways and is surrounded by spiraling peaks.
Gothic Basin - Monte Cristo
Featured In: Day Hiking: North Cascades , by Craig Romano . Buy the full book, including maps, elevation profiles, photos, and more: » REI » Amazon A portion of all book sales from the links above benefits WTA and helps protect and maintain our trails. Rising 1 mile above the surrounding countryside and perched on the western edge of the Cascades, Pilchuck packs some of the best panoramic viewing to be found in these parts.
Mount Pilchuck
Black Canyon
Expand report text Hide report text When the directions say that the road to the trailhead is "rough", you should believe them. My CR-V ... When the directions say that the road to the trailhead is "rough", you should believe them. My CR-V had no problems with the access road, but I can't imagine the hikers who parked next to us in a compact car had a fun time. Encountered USGS scientists doing an interesting study on the local topography!Originally published July 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM | Page modified July 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM ( ) and ( ) are so eager to bloom they poke out of melting snow. How to remember which is which: think "G "(glacier) for gold lilies and "A" (avalanche) for white lilies. They prefer meadows and open slopes in subalpine zones (5,000-7,000 feet, June to August), growing in masses, blanketing the ground. Boulder-DeRoux trail, Mount Rainier, other trails where snow is melting.
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Great Desert Hikes
The desert steppe country of Eastern Washington is the place to hike in May. In spring, the steppe is warmer, drier, brighter and under much less snow than the Cascades and Olympics. Balsamroot sunburst by Alan Bauer. First time hikers in this region will be surprised and delighted about what this country has to offer: abundant, diverse and colorful wildflowers; lakes, ponds and marshes full of birdsong; sweeping vistas of mountains and rolling hills; intimate canyons with steep basalt cliffs; and through it all the mighty Columbia River. What's more, you can enjoy plenty of solitude. We've selected nine excellent hikes in Central and Eastern Washington.