Cascade Dreamscape
From a moment of mind blowing beauty in the heart of the North Cascades National Park, Washington.
21 miles deep in one of the most remote sections of mountains in the contiguous United States, Mount Challenger is the glacial reward for making the hefty voyage this far into the landscape.
My friend, David, and I had awoken at our campsite surrounded by howling fog and water droplets pouring onto our tents. We assumed that the storm from the day before was still unleashing its force onto us, but to our surprise we were just within an inversion layer. As we climbed higher along the trail, the inversion became more and more evident. These conditions are something every pho...