Best Places

I took a few pictures in the Enchantments lo those many years ago.  One was of Prusik Peak.  There is actually a climber on the knife edge in this shot, on the second point below the summit on the left side of the top.  But the conversion from film to digital might not let you…

The Enchantments last month

I recently posted a picture of the Enchantments, a series of glacial lakes above 9000 feet elevation in the North Cascades.  I took the picture 40 years ago, but NOT in May.  Those lakes are only open in the late Fall before the snow comes.  Here is a picture of what they look like now….

40 years ago

I shot this picture 40 years ago.  It’s in the Stuart range of the North Cascades.  A place called “the Enchantments,” for obvious reasons.  The trees are Western Larch and, yes, that’s really the color of the needles. In those days, when the government didn’t require permits and there were few people who knew of…