Out in the Cascades

Spent my last weekend of summer hiking and camping with Jon & Sara--former neighbors & current friends--in and around North Cascades National Park, a couple of hours north and east of Seattle.

Sara, enjoying the view from above Ross Lake

Sara and Emily, eying the trail over Ross Lake Dam:


We hiked down to the dam:


And then over to Ross Lake Resort, a wonderfully strange, even surreal grouping of cabins and boat houses, all floating on logs in the lake.

Only accessible, of course, by boat or by hiking trail.


Jon and Sara, waiting for the water taxi back to the other side of the lake.

On the water taxi:

Really just a motorboat, but "water taxi" is fun to say.






We couldn't stay, since we had reserved a campsite at nearby Rasar State Park.

Sadly, we took no photos (partly because it was dark by the time we were settled in & fed), but the Washington State Parks system has an awesome website, that has things like maps of the parks:


And even photos of individual campsites, like ours, good old #47:

Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery, good company. A great way to end the summer.

Speaking of, I have a syllabus to finish...
Cheers, reader.