Backpacker – August 2019

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MICHAEL DEYOUNG

GO ON AN EPIC.

PASAYTEN WILDERNESS, WA

Make at least one trip this summer a hike that

you—and your quads—will remember. Go deep,

deep, deep into the backcountr y on the 4 3 - mile

Devils Dome Loop in the North Cascades. Done

in four or fi ve days, it racks up more than 10,000

feet of elevation gain as it bores through the high

country on the Washington-Canada border. This view is near the

halfway point (if you start at Canyon Creek), looking south toward the

glacier-mantled Jack Mountain massif. Plenty of eye candy makes the

miles fl y by. PERMIT Required (free) for overnighting at Ross Lake

in Nor th Cascades National Park on the fi nal night; obtain from the

Marblemount Ranger Station. CONTACTS http://www.fs.usda.gov/okawen;

nps.gov/noca

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