I’m packing today for my long-awaited trip to the North Cascades and Seattle. I’m so excited to get back to this beautiful stretch of steep mountains and stay at the new-ish (built 2005), very cool place called the North Cascades Institute. It’s an environmental learning center way up in the mountains north of Seattle situated on the deep turquoise Diablo Lake. I can’t wait to feast my eyes on some statuesque Douglas firs and demure trilliums, also known as the Western Wake Robin, come to find out when I wikied it. Who knew. I’m really looking forward to some serious hiking and maybe canoeing with a couple of close friends from high school.

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