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Summer is coming!

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Posted by Marc Adamus on June 13, 2006 at 1:50 PM
Summer is coming!
Views like this can be found throughout the Cascade range in the coming months. This one is from one of the most ruggedly beautiful places in the NW, Sahale Arm above Cascade Pass, in North Cascades National park. Sahale Peak (which I later solo-climbed) can be seen strait ahead across the glacial valley and turqoise lake below. Alpine Heather compliments the landscape in the foreground. This is one from the archives - EOS-3, Fuji Velvia, 17-40, grad or combination of grads + polarizer.
Posted by Mark Hudon on June 13, 2006 at 1:54 PM
Sweet, Marc! It looks like an awesome place.
Posted by Jeremy Cram on June 13, 2006 at 2:14 PM
Beautiful! The way those clouds leave those shadows on the mountain is awesome. And that sky....wow.
Posted by Harald Rust on June 13, 2006 at 3:15 PM
Love how the composition takes one from the foreground heather to the lake, mountain, and clouds. Wonderful colors and lighting.
Harald
Posted by Erik Lundh on June 13, 2006 at 4:13 PM
Wish I was there now instead of sitting here at my desk at work. Makes me want to quit my day job and be a Mountain goat. :frown:
Posted by Zack Schnepf on June 13, 2006 at 6:04 PM
This is very beautiful Marc, I love the emerald color of the lake.
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on June 13, 2006 at 7:30 PM
Wow, stunning. Never heard of this place before - another spot of Oregone I gotta look up and learn about !!
Posted by Marc Adamus on June 13, 2006 at 7:49 PM
This isn't Oregon, John. It's in far Northern Washington in the North Cascades National Park. The North Cascades are the most impressive of any mountain range in the NW, but very rugged and inaccessable. The mountains look nothing like the volcanos throughout the Cascades and much more like the Rockies. There are only a handful of trails in the huge park. 95% of travel is off trail - I know from a variety of climbs I've done in the area. Shown here is one of the most popular regions.
Posted by Rick Lundh on June 13, 2006 at 8:01 PM
Incredible place. I dig the colors and textures created by the partially overcast day.
Posted by Pradeep on June 13, 2006 at 9:13 PM
North Cascades National Park is voted by National Geographic magazine in their top 10 most beautiful and unspoilt national parks of North America. As Marc says, its mostly because of the rugged conditions of the park which make it inaccesible to most tourists. I'd love to go there sometime when I can get time off my work.
Posted by Kevin Hillegass on June 14, 2006 at 2:01 AM
This is an amazing place, Marc. I would love to see it myself someday.

Kevin