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  • Extreme Danger warning sign on the washed out road to the Monte Cristo townsite near Barlow Pass in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, North Cascades, Washington.
  • Jim Prager and friends scrambles up Tomyhoi Peak in the Mount Baker Wilderness, Washingon.
  • Jim Prager scrambles up Luna Peak at sunrise in the Northern Picket Range, North Cascades National Park, Washington. The view from the summit of Luna Peak is considered by those who have ventured there the most spectacular scenery of the Cascade Range.
  • Seen from Luna Peak, The Roost (l-r) and West McMillan Spire, towering above a thick fog layer, are illuminated at sunrise in North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • A thick fog layer swirls about a ridge in Luna Cirque, a valley below the Northern Picket Range in Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Top view of trees killed by a bark beetle outbreak near Twisp Pass, North Cascades National Park, Washington. Bark beetle populations have exploded and caused massive devastation throughout the west since the late 1990s. Recent warmer winters have not been sufficiently severe to kill the native beetle and suppress its population growth.
  • Brian Polagye stands proudly on Hurricane Ridge, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington, as the sun bursts through.
  • A sparkling sun is reflected by water in the beautiful alpine basin at Tapto Lakes, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Spring brings spots of color to the dwarfed alpine vegetation around a gnarled stump below Tomyhoi Peak, Mount Baker Wilderness, Washington.
  • Early morning sun rays shine through the fog and mist enveloping a pine forest on a Winter morning, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
  • Michael Schmitz runs through a misty forest in snowshoes in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, WA.
  • A dense stand of red alder (Alnus rubra) trees along Boulder River Trail in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
  • A series of waterfalls fall into the Boulder River in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
  • Michelle Hickner looks out over Cedar Falls, surrounded by Fall colors, on a forest hike near Mazama, Methow Valley, Washington.
  • A cluster of corn lilies grows thick as spring arrives to the alpine in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington.
  • A ruptured green balloon lies among ice worms, slowly photodegrading on the Whitechuck Glacier, on the slopes south of Glacier Peak in Washington's North Cascades. The glacier has retreated rapidly in the last century, and is likely do disappear entirely in our own - ice worms, adapted to life on the glacier surface, will disappear with it. The balloon, carelessly set free and fallen as litter, will never quite vanish; broken down by weathering, it will be eternalized as small, mobile fragments poisoning the soil, water and food chain.
  • A pair of snowshoers gear up for a hike off the I-90 highway overpass at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington.
  • A lone branch pokes through the snow on the slopes of Mount Persis, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
  • Icicles slowly melt inside a snow cave at the base of Dorado Needle, a rocky spire in the heart of North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Whatcom Peak disappears from view as smoke from a nearby forest fire envelopes the beautiful alpine basin of Tapto Lakes, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Lewis Rogers, a snowboard strapped to his back, pulls himself up a snow slope to catch some turns in the Mount Baker backcountry, Washington.
  • Jim Prager ascends the Eldorado Glacier below Eldorado Peak, past a large bergschrund, in North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Unusual lenticular clouds build over the sawtooth ridges of the Washington Cascades as they form and peel off from the top of Mount Baker, as seen from Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Sunset over Mount Baker viewed from below the summit of Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Kris Haskins waits for night to fall at an 'emergency' bivy below the summit of Mount Stuart in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington.
  • A headlamp traces a trail of light through a stand of trees in a snow-covered forest in North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Aaron Hossack and Valerie Wall hike past an emerging patch of Yellow Glacier Lilies below Tomyhoi Peak in the Mount Baker Wilderness, WA.
  • Nick Cowan poses for a portrait with wild frosted hair during a backcountry ski tour to the Red Heather Meadows in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Yoav Bar-Ness is reflected in an alpine tarn above Lake Ann, North Cascades National Park, Washington, on a joyful start to a relaxed two-day ascent of Mount Shuksan. Mount Baker is visible in the distance.
  • Kevin Steffa leads a climbing team across the Sulphide Glacier below the summit pyramid of Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • Climber Brian Polagye reads peak names off his topo map as he stands on the summit of Wallaby Peak, Okanogan National Forest, Washington.
  • Climber Brian Polagye stands on a ledge as he rappels off the summit of Foggy Peak in the Monte Cristo area, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
  • Members of the University of Washington Climbing Club stand together on Yellow Aster Butte trail in Mount Baker Wilderness, Washington, after a successful scramble to the summit of Tomyhoi Peak.
  • Members of the University of Washington Climbing Club rest their tired feet in a creek at a campground in Mazama, Washington.
  • Kris Hasking indulges in a wedge of watermelon after a grueling climb of the West Ridge of Mount Stuart in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington.
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