CutThroat Pass ~ PCT "Edward Abbey" Backpack
JULY 3-4, 2010
Join a spectacular early summer overnight campout at Cutthroat Creek campgound, and hike the Cutthroat Pass trail. This is a high elevation hike from east to west between Rainy and Washington Pass on the North Cascades Highway (SR 20). 12.5 miles one-way, elev. gain & loss 2500 ft. We will join the PCT and hike back to Rainy Pass. A vehicle will be left at Rainy Pass to shuttle back east to pick up vehicles. Wildflowers should be in a riot of bloom - Avalanche lily, Monkeyflower, and Bird's Beak Lousewort were plentiful on our last trip here.
Participants must be in good physical condition. Hiking boots required, a water filter, quart water bottle, headlamp & camping gear. Pack a lunch both days plus a contribution to Saturday Nights dinner if you like, and bring your own utensils & cup. Leader will bring pack stove, cook kit, First Aid kit, and main meal basics for Saturday dinner & Sunday breakfast. Trip fee of $10 per particpant to cover trailhead pass, camping registration, and meals except your own lunches. Contact leader Terese to sign up and for more information, at 253-334-2157 or terrasolutions@hotmail.com. (MB)
NOTE This trip is at the top of Rainy Pass, about a 3 hour drive from the Seattle area.
"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive them." - Edward Abbey
