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AUGUST, 2012: WA III -- TO MT. BAKER

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The little public utilities park behind Gorge Powerhouse along North Cascade Highway is always a welcome place to stop and wander around (and the restroom inside the Visitor's Center of their powerhouse is always well-maintained and clean, also).
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The little public utilities park behind Gorge Powerhouse along North Cascade Highway is always a welcome place to stop and wander around (and the restroom inside the Visitor's Center of their powerhouse is always well-maintained and clean, also).

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  • The little public utilities park behind Gorge Powerhouse along North Cascade Highway is always a welcome place to stop and wander around (and the restroom inside the Visitor's Center of their powerhouse is always well-maintained and clean, also).
  • VIDEO: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT
  • Ladder Creek Falls. It twists and turns in a narrow, tortuous chasm such that it is impossible to really get a photo which shows much of it.
  • 15-photo panorama of Ladder Creek (below the Falls) from the bridge.
  • Bev finds a way to cool off a bit.
  • Gorge powerhouse and gorgeous flowers.
  • VIDEO: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT
  • Here we are north of Concrete, up near Mount Baker National Recreation Area (south of Mount Baker). It was getting late, so I didn't get any other photos of this particular area. Bri is standing on a turbine which undoubtedly at one time harnessed power from the Baker River to produce electricity.
  • Into the next day now. Nooksack Falls, as we approach Mount Baker from the north. This 30-foot wide fall plunges 88 feet.
  • VIDEO: CLICK ON THE PHOTO AND ALLOW IT TO BUFFER A BIT
  • Nooksack Falls is probably the most easily accessible waterfall around Mount Baker. And spectacular. You can see Nooksack Falls in a clip from the 1978 movie THE DEER HUNTER (along with a very young Robert De Niro) at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur94GUaOjL8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur94GUaOjL8</a><br /> <br /> (Warning: Included in the above clip of THE DEER HUNTER is a scene where a deer is felled by a hunter. If you don't like such scenes, just go on to the next photo herein).
  • 11-panel panorama from Nooksack Falls overlook.
  • For those of you who don't know, one of my trademarks (quirks, I'm sure, is a more accurate word) is to photograph photographers. Looks like Bev and Bri are getting their masterpieces.
  • Yum! Wild red huckleberries! One of my favorites!
  • Hey, Bev: If you can stop texting for a bit, Bri has a nice, tasty salmonberry for you!
  • Photographing Mount Shuksan.
  • Looking north, up toward Canada. In fact, some of those mountains may be in Canada.
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  • Mount Shuksan.
  • Mount Shuksan from Picture Lake. Gee, I wonder how the lake got that name? ;-)
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