RHH's photos with the keyword: cutthroat pass

This was Cutthroat Pass when we hiked it last autumn. The trees are larches which we had gone to see in their autumn color. The rocky outcrop on the right is where we ate our lunch of hot soup and coffee. Though cold we climbed up to the top of the outcrop and enjoyed the view while eating.

The view west from the Cutthroat Pass trail in the North Cascades. The peak on the left is the Golden Horn. We hiked the Cutthroat Pass trail last autumn in spite of the snow and cold.

We hiked the Cutthroat Pass trail last October through early snow. The photo was taken from the area where we ended out hike but the continuation of the trail is visible on left heading up to the Canadian border and the end of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Photographed along the Cutthroat Pass Trail in the North Cascades, I believe this is a Western Hemlock. The snow and ice were part of the day we hiked the trail (also part of the Pacific Crest Trail).

This is Cutthroat Pass in the North Cascades of Washington in October. The view looks south down the valley up which we hiked. Cutthroat Pass is along the Pacific Crest Trail.

These are the autumn needles of a Subalpine Larch, a species of Larch that has a disjunct range in the North Cascades.

Photographed along the Cutthroat Pass Trail in early October as we hiked through some early snow. The pass is now closed for the winter and will not be open again until May or later.

In early October and in early snow we hiked to Cutthroat Pass along part of the Pacific Crest Trail. This was near the start of our hike where the snow was just a dusting along the trail. Further up we hiked in more snow.

Winter came early this year to the Cascades. We hiked the Cutthroat Pass trail, part of the PCT early in October and there was snow in the pass already then. The highway is now closed and will be closed until April or May. When we hiked there we wanted to see the larches in their autumn glory and caught them at just the right time. They grow at higher elevations, in this case at 2072 meters and are one of our favorite things to see in the autumn.

Photographed at Cutthroat Pass in the North Cascades this past autumn. The Cutthroat Pass trail is part of the Pacific Crest Trail, a place we have hiked before to see the larches in their autumn color.

In mid-October, traveling across that state, we hiked Cutthroat Pass in the North Cascades. The weather was cloudy and it was cold but we had a very good hike with lunch and coffee as the top of the pass. The larches were near their peak and the scenery was spectacular in spite of the low-hanging clouds. The inset is of the Larch needles.

Supalpine Larch is a deciduous conifer that grows in the Rocky Mountains of Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and Alberta with a small disjunct population in the Cascades of Washington. It grows at high altitudes (1,800 to 2,400 m, 5,900 to 7,900 ft). We went to see the larches at Cutthroat Pass mid-October and they were at their peak. We did not see them, though, until we reaches those higher altitudes at which they grow.

The trail to Cutthroat Pass is part of the Pacific Crest Trail. We hiked from Washington Pass to this pass to see the larches in color. At this point we were still at a low enough elevation that the larches were above us but we stopped for photos of the small waterfall along the trail.

In October we hiked the Cutthroat Pass Trail, part of the Pacific Crest Trail, to see the larches in their autumn color. At this point we were not high enough to see any larches but stopped to photograph this small waterfall along the trail.

This was near where we ate our lunch and had coffee on the Cutthroat Pass trail in the North Cascades of Washington

A couple more photos from our mid-October hike to Cutthroat Pass in the North Cascades, this of Porcupine Peak and the snow-covered trail we followed through the larches at the higher elevations.

The Larches were at their peak when we hiked to Cutthroat Pass in the North Cascades. The day was overcast and cold with a bit of snow on the trail but we had a pleasant hike.

We often hike around mid-October in the North Cascades to see the Larches in color. They were at their peak when we went to Cutthroat Pass a few weeks ago, but the day was not as nice as we would have hoped.