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| At Bay View State Park-- making coffee and picking blackberries to add to our oatmeal | |
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| We camped six nights at Steelhead
Park in Rockport. It was a great base camp from which to explore the area. |
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| Inside the Visitor Center of North Cascades National Park |
Relief map showing the lay of the land |
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| Front of the Visitor Center | Custom fireplace screen |
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| First of many hikes on the River Loop Trail | |
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| Trail meanders through a thick forest of spruce, cedar and fir trees | |
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| Ya think it rains a lot here?!! | Roots resemble a Central American strangler fig |
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| Trail takes you down to the Skagit River | |
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| Red cedar giving birth to Herb | First fall colors of Oregon Grape |
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| View looking up inside the hollow red cedar | Colorful Oregon Grape trillium |
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| Hiking the Trail of the Cedars near Newhalem | A bridge takes you across the Skagit River |
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| Suspension bridge crosses the Skagit | |
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| The fellas stand next to a old growth red cedar | A paper bark tree |
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| Ladder Creek Falls flows behind the Gorge Powerhouse | |
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| A couple steps of Ladder Creek Falls | |
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