Pelton's View
A breaktaking view from Cascade Pass
Breakfast Kitchen
Biolite breakfast
Cascades Tea Party
Multinational breakfast that brought Michael back to his childhood youth. Tea and ginger snaps
Two Many Cooks
Michael stoking the fire to get the cooking underway
Morning Mist
Early morning fog engulfed the nearby mountains
Bucktooth Breakfast
I just liked how this tree remains jutted out of the ground
Pine Cascades
The mountains were not the only thing of this place that cascaded
Boot Break-in
Its amazing to look at these boots from their first use. So relatively clean!
Pre-Pack
Post breakfast clean up and pre-hike pack
Batten Down
Making sure their tent was in ship shape
Morning Light
The view down range from our camp
Camp's Front Door
This was the "entrance" to our camp. Really just an opening from the downed trees
Audible Awe
We stood in utter awe of the sounds the mountains made as the glaciers carved them
Glacier's Easle
The mountain that we THINK we heard the glacier moving on
Basin Perspective
A little further up the Pelton Basn looking south
Glacial Aftermath
The scree field below the mountain sentinels
Soothing Flow
Slow motion capture of the Pelton Basin stream
Northern Cascades
Wading in the Pelton Basin stream
Boulder Fields
Massive stones that have been dislodged from the mountains by erosion and glaciers. Oh and gravity
Bedrock...
Funny story...
Cascades Slide
Bedrock, scree fields, and the sentinels
Basin Carving
Epic view of the Pelton Basin! 100% beautiful
Pine Wall
The Sahale Arm stretches above that ridge
Sahale Forearm
Getting closer. Fern and I walked along a scree field hugging the Sahale Arm ridges