A man stands at the summit of Mount Blum with a view of Hagan Mountain in North Cascades National Park. Ethan Welty, Tandem Stock A majestic landscape of towering peaks, evergreen forests, glacier-fed ...

Heavy mountain snow turns passes into a time-bomb—chains, whiteouts, and closures. Here’s the fast plan to stay moving and stay out of the ditch. Heavy snow in the Cascades means hazardous travel with ...

There’s an old saw that says the journey is half the fun. Which, if you’re making the schlep from Seattle to Portland on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, can be a bit hard to swallow.

Everett science teacher Jack McLeod broke the mold with his guidebook on the North Cascades Highway. Instead of telling you everything you might want to know about the highway in his new book and ...

About North Cascades National Park North Cascades NP is managed as a park complex along with Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and Ross Lake National Recreation Area. When you visit the North ...

Last week, the three commercial guiding companies on Washington’s 14,411-foot Mount Rainier did something they’d never done before: canceled the climbing season outright with weeks left to go. Stormy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They're known as the American Alps, and it doesn't take long in Washington's North Cascades to figure out why. Rows of jagged ...

They're known as the American Alps, and it doesn't take long in Washington's North Cascades to figure out why. Rows of jagged mountains cut across an impossibly vast horizon while aquamarine rivers ...