North Cascades National Park

After the family get together last weekend, we headed for the woods. The North Cascades National Park is about 120 miles to the north east of Seattle, up the Skagit river valley. At the head of the valley, the Seattle Electric Company built some 3 dams for hydroelectric power generation. The first photo shows one of the lakes behind the upper dam. The canyon is getting very steep at this point. The national park contains over 1/2 of all the glaciers in the lower 48 states, although we didn't count all of them.
Being on the western side of the Cascades, there is plenty of rainfall. The second photo was taken in our campground, with our RV in the background. Notice the ferns and moss! This is typical in the national park.