North Cascades National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the State of Washington. The park is the largest of the three National Park Service Units that comprise the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Several national wilderness areas and British Columbia parkland adjoin the National Park. The park features rugged mountain peaks and protects portions of the North Cascades range. |
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Below: Lee Duquette and Ilse
Blahak climbed down a short, rocky area to view Newhalem Creek. Karen
Duquette photographed them from the pathway above them. |
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Below: Ilse Blahak and Lee Duquette took
some photos of the River. |
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Below: Lee Duquette
tried a different path down to another area by the river. Karen Duquette
and her youngest sister, Ilse Blahak, stopped walking when they saw
how narrow the path became. Lee decided that he could not get to the
river from this path and turned around. Karen photographed Lee coming
back up the path. |
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Below: Walking back to the car, Ilse
Blahak stopped and took a photo of a weed. |
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Below: Driving on into the
park, there was a different North Cascades National Park sign. |
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Below: Karen, Lee and Ilse
finally got a nice view of the river. |
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Below: A stop at a picnic
area to try to see the river. |
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Below: Karen Duquette stood on the picnic
table to see and photograph the river. |
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Below: The photos below
were taken from the far corner of the fenced picnic area. |
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Below: A big mountain across the street
from the picnic area. |
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Below: The Picket Range.
The visible peaks are a small fraction of the glaciated range beyond
the highway. Only ten air-miles away, the roadless, trail-less Picket
Range is a place where the terms "wild" and "remote"
become real. It is entirely contained within North Cascades National
Park. It is about 6 miles long, running northwest-southeast, and lies
north of the Skagit River, west of Ross Lake, and east of Mounts Baker
and Shuksan. There are at least 21 peaks in the range over 7,500 feet
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Below: Hiking the River
Loop Trail - a 1.8 mile trail that starts at the Visitor Center. |
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Below: As the trail got
closer to the river, everything got greener, and was covered with moss. |
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Below: Lee
Duquette picked up a piece of moss and acted like it was his beard.
Good thing no bugs were in the moss. |
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Below: Then Lee Duquette
placed the moss on his head. |
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Below: The final path leading
back to the parking lot. |
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Below: After leaving North
Cascades National Park, Ilse Blahak noticed a tower with a mouse face,
and a bit down the street, a hamburger/hot dog picnic table, so she
took some quick pictures from the car. |
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Please continue on to any of these 44 sections in the state of Washington that you have not yet seen. There is also a link to BC, Canada below. |
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North Cascades National
Park (this page) |
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AFTER you have seen all of the above sections,
please continue on to British Columbia, Canada: Cultus Lake, Bridal
Falls, Harrison Hot Springs, City of Hope, the tunnels, Whistler, Brandywine
Falls, Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, Shannon Falls, a bear tour, Lac
La Hache Provincial Park, Prince George, Glaciers and waterfalls in
Smithers, salmon jumping, Indians net fishing and more.
OR
Continue Navigation in the order of your choice
via the alphabetical or category buttons below |
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This page has quite a few photos because it is a combination of all three
people taking pictures. This page may take a bit of time to load, if
the internet is running slowly. Please be patient. If the photos pause
during loading, hit F5 on your keyboard.
