Cascade Pass — Saturday, Jul. 9, 2011

North Cascades > North Cascades Highway - Hwy 20

Cascade Pass Trail road was still closed at mile 20 (though open now to the Cascade Pass trailhead). Nice walk up road from road closure (at cabin) to Cascade Pass trail head parking lot. Walked up the road with 7 children ranging in age from 3 to 9 years old. Road was in good shape until last two turns before parking lot which had large mound of snow blocking the road but was easy to walk up and over to finish the walk to the parking lot. Trail heads at parking lot were covered in snow. Weather was beautiful, waterfalls flowing hard, young buck was walking up the road on our way down and continued to approach our silent group of 11 to about 50 yards before turning into forest.