My North Cascades Story
Flying for Fish 
By Oly Mingo
It was cold. Really cold. As the R44 helicopter chopped briskly through the Cascade morning chill, the pilot glanced at me and laughed. “You want the heat on?”
As the director of photography for Howell at the Moon Productions in Wenatchee, my work takes me constantly into the landscapes of the North Cascades.
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Mountain Loop Highway Closed Throughout August, September » Mountain Loop Highway Closed Everett, Wash. July 21, 2010— The Forest Service is closing Mountain Loop Highway (Forest Service road 20) to traffic through August at various locations to install culverts. Construction will close the road 7 a.m.-5 p.m. on the following dates and locations: Read more...
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A great hike for kids, Twin Lakes is a short and relatively easy trail through mature forest to a shallow mountain lake... Read this month's featured hike!
Did You Know?
There are nearly 700 glaciers in the North Cascades. Thirty percent of the fresh water in the Puget Sound comes from the glacier-fed Skagit River.
