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North Cascades (WA)

Park Number: 41/63

First Visited: August 31, 2013

Though Glacier National Park holds the namesake of perennial ice, North Cascades National Park contains the actuality (with over three hundred glaciers compared to the former’s twenty-five). These vast icefields continue to shape and maintain the geology and ecology of the region, offering fauna, like endangered wolverines, places to den, or acres of old-growth forest protection from harvest. Climate change is taking its toll, however, and North Cascades now operates as a scientific research center, along with the other Washington parks, for potential solutions of adaptation and mitigation.

North Cascades is a lesser-known park within the system, although it gets roughly one million visitors a year, which isn’t entirely surprising considering its proximity to Seattle. Its low-profile identity resides in its backcountry/wilderness majority; access is limited making it a haven for backpackers and mountain climbers. I look forward to my future endeavors in the park, each taking me deeper and higher into the frozen terrain.

North Cascades is ancestral lands to the Skagit Tribes.

Related Articles:

8 Great Winter Hikes in the U.S.

North Cascades (WA)

Park Number: 41/63

First Visited: August 31, 2013

Though Glacier National Park holds the namesake of perennial ice, North Cascades National Park contains the actuality (with over three hundred glaciers compared to the former’s twenty-five). These vast icefields continue to shape and maintain the geology and ecology of the region, offering fauna, like endangered wolverines, places to den, or acres of old-growth forest protection from harvest. Climate change is taking its toll, however, and North Cascades now operates as a scientific research center, along with the other Washington parks, for potential solutions of adaptation and mitigation.

North Cascades is a lesser-known park within the system, although it gets roughly one million visitors a year, which isn’t entirely surprising considering its proximity to Seattle. Its low-profile identity resides in its backcountry/wilderness majority; access is limited making it a haven for backpackers and mountain climbers. I look forward to my future endeavors in the park, each taking me deeper and higher into the frozen terrain.

North Cascades is ancestral lands to the Skagit Tribes.

Related Articles:

8 Great Winter Hikes in the U.S.

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