RHH's photos with the keyword: highway 20

This was taken along Washington's Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, in North Cascades National Park. The waterfall, as far as I know, is unnamed. The photo was taken in the morning as we traveled through the park to the trailhead for Maple and Heather Passes. It was handheld. Ordinarily I would use a tripod to photograph moving water but was in a hurry that morning to get hiking.

This is another view of Washington pass taken from the roadside shown in the picture below. That picture was taken from the overlook shown in this picture, the flat area above the sheer cliff on the left. In this picture Kangaroo Ridge and Snagtooth Ridge are shown on the right with the road to Winthrop at the bottom of the picture. This view looks east down the pass and the picture below looks west and up the pass.

This is the Tall White Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera dilatata var. dilatata, photographed along the North Cascades Highway near Washington Pass. This orchid, along with the Slender Bog Orchis, Platanthera stricta can be found in abundance along the roadsides of most of the passes in the Cascades. It is sweetly scented and is often found, as this spike of flowers, with the lip caught in the petals and dorsal sepal.

This is another shot taken from the overlook at Washington Pass, as also the photo below. This view shows the road, Highway 20 or the North Cascades Highway dropping down from the pass toward Mazama and Winthrop, Washington. The cluster of peaks on the right is the Liberty Bell Group, considered one of the forty best climbs in the USA. Liberty Bell Mountain is on the right with Lexington and Concord Towers next to it and Early Winters Spires on the left.

Taken from the viewpoint at Washington Pass, this photo looks east over the pass. Because the area is so exposed and because it receives so much snow (there was still 70 feet of snow in the pass in 2012 when they began to open it in the spring), there are also a lot of dead trees up at the viewpoint that make for interesting pictures. We went through the pass yet last week, but it is now closed for the winter.

These wonderful flowers bloom just after the snow melts. We photographed them in the area east of Washington Pass on Highway 20 where they were blooming by the thousands. Most plants have only a single flower, but there are a few plants that have two flowers.

This was the weather we came through last week when we traveled across the state to Spokane. The pass had been closed two days earlier and we found snow-covered roads on the way to Spokane and the pass closed for several hours on our way home. This shot was taken early in the morning and in attempting to get this shot from the top of a snowbank I sank into the snow up to my waist and had to crawl out. Thankfully, my camera is relatively waterproof.