I have been slowly working through old pictures on my hard drive....trying to clear up space and complete some hiking trips that I took this last year....I came across this set of pictures I took of our drive back from the Cascade Pass Trail....The smoke from the fires around Wenatchee, Pateros's Billygoat Mountain and the Methow area were really starting to push up into the North Cascades....One of the great things about the drive through the North Cascades is it seems like at every corner and turn in the road you have views of mountains...the views from the road alone are very spectacular....makes for an enjoyable journey home even if its a long day....It's hard to explain the thrill and fascination I have with the North Cascades....each time we travel back and forth from trail head to trail head...each visit is different and beautiful...can't wait to return....I am very envious of folks that ski or even snowmobile this time of year up and down hwy 20....On our way to the Cascade Pass Trail head I noticed that there was a North Cascades National Park visitors center in the Newhalem area...so we made a detour off the road to go and explore and visit it.....I have drove by many times but apparently the scenery is too distracting to see the sign....Lots of information and a sweet little gift area....I will make sure we return to visit with my nieces and newphew when we are back in the area..... Yesterday winter decided to come visit us again....brought a little bit of new snow with it....made things nice and white again...I hear rain is possibly before the weekend...this should make road conditions all kinds of fun....
Since we don't take snowshoeing very serious and it's just another way to get out in the great outdoors and have some fun, we snowshoe highway 20 from the parking area up the pass quiet often. It is a busy snowmobile area, but if you just be aware of whats going on around you, it is safe. There is so much room to have fun, snow covered slopes, snowshoe up the road, or venture off the road. It is a gradual climb up the road, we never get very far before we run out of gas and are ready to head back down. I would love to some day take a snowmobile to the top of the pass...and snowshoe....I keep dreaming. This is a easy location to just get out, stretch your legs and enjoy the fresh winter air. I have always been a little bit apprehensive about snowshoeing where there is snowmobile activities, but so far we have met only super polite folks and very respectful to keep their distance of folks snowshoeing.
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