abstract:The North Cascades are a section of the Cascade Range of western North America. They span the border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.
REI's flagship store in Seattle, I feel compelled to invite the author to my home state of Washington for a ten-day backpack trip through the NorthCascades.
Through the years, Brower had a profound impact on America's wildlands by helping to create national parks and seashores in Kings Canyon, the NorthCascades, the Redwoods, Great Basin, Alaska, Cape Cod, Fire Island and Point Reyes.
Blink and you will miss Mazama (population 230), little more than a gas station, a cosy mountain inn and a mercantile store that, between November and April, is the last stop on the road west when Highway 20 across the NorthCascades to Seattle is closed due to snow.