Maple Pass -- North Cascades, Washington
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Thursday, October 17, 2002
Dave Verbois and I hiked up the east ridge towards Maple Pass. Rainy Lake lay below to the east, Lake Anne to the west. Alpine meadows surrounded us, painted in brilliant fall colors.

Bruce Tracy took this stunning photo looking southwest while flying above Cutthroat Peak on Sunday, October 20. Whistler Mountain is in the left foreground. Highway 20 runs across the valley 4,000 feet below. Rainy Lake is on the left. Lake Anne is above and to the right. Between the lakes is the ridge from which we hike and fly. Frisco Mountain is the left summit, with the Lyall Glacier further left and below. Corteo Peak is the "chunky" dark summit on the right, with Goode rising above and beyond.

The Lyall Glacier on Frisco Mountain's north face...

Rainy Lake. The bright patch above and beyond is highway 20 and the lower Rainy Pass trailhead and parking lot -- our LZ, 1½ miles distant and 2,200 feet below.

Dave (left) and Paul (right)

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