We just took a quick road trip from Seattle up to the North Cascades highway. The scenery was breathtaking and the weather was great.
The North Cascades Institute is near Diablo, WA and is on Ross Lake. We wandered around the beautiful campus and dreamed of attending some classes.
Native plants and snowy peaks at the Institute
Trees were just beginning to leaf out as we climbed higher in elevation.
Ross Lake is one of the power generating lakes of Seattle City Light.
There’s a small museum and waterfall garden built by City Light that’s open to the public.
Near the top of Washington Pass we met a group of people planning to hike to the top of this peak then paraglide down.
The road leads ever on.
Waterfalls are everywhere.
There’s a great museum in Winthrop.
With bones and…
old farm machinery
The town of Winthrop is a trip back in time with great food.
Dropping down into the valley Bitter Root blooms everywhere.
The apple, pear and cherry orchards near Omak are in full bloom.
Returning home we saw one more magnificent peak near Darrington.
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