Sept. 8, 2011 - Leisurely morning... I just love drinking a cup of tea in bed first thing in the morning while I'm journaling. I don't do that at home! We were on the road by 11:00 am today. The drive through North Cascades National Park was gorgeous - high mountain spires still holding snow fields and aqua blue lakes created by a series of dams. A sign outside the small town of Marblemount just west of the national park proclaims that it is the "Entrance to the American Alps." We hiked to Blue Lake, a 4.5 mile round-trip hike with a 1,050-foot elevation gain. The larch trees were just starting to turn yellow. We saw a chubby little pika scurrying through the rock boulders. Two mountain goats, a female and a young one, were grazing 20 feet off the path as we passed by. There were even fish in the alpine waters of Blue Lake. It was a great hike.
Tonight, we're parked in a private RV park near the shores of Pearrygin Lake. Silverline Resort is only a few miles outside of Winthrop (WA). It has nice sites for RVs with a view of the lake in one direction and a view of the mountains in the other. We sat in lawn chairs behind our RV tonight to watch the sunset over the mountains.
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| Pat at Blue Lake in North Cascades National Park |
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| Tom on trail to Blue Lake |
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