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>An autumn hike

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On Saturday, Ken and I hiked the Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop route, starting at Rainy Pass. It was a brisk day with lots of sunshine and fall colors.
Lake Ann

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Liberty Bell seems lost in all the other big mountains in this view

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

The cirque behind these larch trees is directly above Rainy Lake. Its tiny glacier cannot be seen here.

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Remnants of summer wildflowers

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

That’s the high spot

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Heading up to that high spot

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Looking down the other side.

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

That’s Glacier Peak on the left surrounded by other glacier covered mountains. There are more glaciers in the North Cascades than in the rest of the lower 48. Well, that’s what they told us at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Heading down the other side with our high spot in front of us

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Larch reflections in Lake Ann

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

Maple Pass/Lake Ann loop hike

>Okanogan Highlands Barter Faire

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It was cold, windy, dusty, smokey and a great place for people watching.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

There was an amazing variety of stuff for sale or trade.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Some people just came for the people watching.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Turns out, we have a mutual friend in Montana!

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Lots of great drumming and drums too.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

A bike powered blender, what could be cooler than that?

Scenes from the Barter Faire

It was only Friday and they’d already had too much Barter Faire!

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

He asked me to make his picture with my ‘image maker’

Scenes from the Barter Faire

I didn’t see any dragons. I was wary.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

I always wondered where the fairies got their outfits.

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

Scenes from the Barter Faire

>Changing seasons

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Methow River near the Suspension Bridge

Methow River

Larch tree near Harts Pass
larch tree in snow
Near Slate Peak
near Slate Peak
View from Washington Pass overlook
Washington Pass View

>Some images from September

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The whole month went by in a blur

Falls Creek Falls
Falls Creek Falls
Chinook Salmon in the Methow, near the Suspension Bridge
Chinook Salmon in the Methow, near the Suspension Bridge
Aspen Lake
Aspen Lake
The Thirty Mile Fire burned in 2001
30 Mile Burn in the Chewuck

30 Mile Burn in the Chewuck

30 Mile Burn in the Chewuck

Bridge across the Chewuck

Some color in a burned landscape

rosehips

Wilson’s Snipe on the edge of the Okanogan near its confluence with the Columbia

Wilson's Snipe

Turkey Vultures sunning on Cassimir BarTurkey Vultures sunning on Cassimir Bar
This toy truck emerged when the Columbia was drawn downwreckage on the columbia
Washington Pass OverlookWashington Pass overlook

>A Family Visit in the Methow

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Everyone has to go see Washington Pass when the weather is good!
Washington Pass overlook
JW doesn’t really care for those high edges of the world!

Washington Pass overlook

Mae doesn’t mind the drop off.

Washington Pass overlook

Rainy Lake
Rainy Lake was beautiful.

Sniffing bark
Sniffing Ponderosa Pine on the way to Falls Creek Falls. The bark smells like vanilla.

Falls Creek

Falls Creek

Falls Creek Falls
Falls Creek Falls

Fishing net
This surplus fishing net will soon be our garden fence. Ken and his brother stretched it out so we could how much we really have!