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Cascade Pass & Sahale Arm Trail, North Cascades National Park


Life has been interesting so far this summer. Our summer was filled with lots of smoke this year, once again. I drove to work for a few weeks with a back seat full of things I decided I was not leaving behind this time. Just in case the fire decided to jump over the ridge of Billygoat mountain and take Pateros out again. Sad to say but a few of those items are still riding around in the backseat, due to laziness. I have been out hiking, July was mostly a good month, August we struggled to get anywhere due to smoke, closed trails, roads and just not enough heart to leave home to far. My brand new home office-studio has basically sat empty, my computer has gotten lonely and collected dust. Around the first of July our plans to overnight into the Pasayten were canceled due to...to busy and guess what, the woods caught on fire. One wonderful day in July my camera decided to take a dive out of my truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot....apparently cameras and pavement do mix very well. So way to many weeks later, Nikon was able to fix it and return it to me. Good thing because I was afraid I would have to sell the house to buy a new one. So after sitting under a cloud of smoke for weeks on end, we have been having beautiful sky's the last few weekends. Managed to get two weekends of hiking squeezed in. I don't have any recent pictures to show yet....maybe come Christmas. But the future is looking good, sand, sun, beautiful water is just around the corner....VACATION. Once again the pictures are from last year....embarrassed to say that....kinda. But real life for me. I keep saying someday! I have hiked Cascade Pass several times over the last couple of years, never a disappointment. It takes some motivation to get get up early and hit the road, but always worth it. The last little climb from the pass up to reach the Sahale Arm is always a challenge for me...getting old and I might have indulged in a few extra mocha's....pastry's....while trudging thru the ashes of my life. Moving forward one day at a time.

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