Backcountry Baker

Rumble Gully is a great ride and sometimes it's the last

• Topics:
  • Weather
  • Sports
  • Travel
• Published:
  1. Active! Northwest, November 01, 2000
• Metainfo:
  • 2078 words
  • 69.3 inches

High in the North Cascades, it is truly another world. Any Oregon resident who visits here for the first time and walks through the glacial valleys and between it's unending jagged peaks will feel unnerved. These can't be the same mountains he can see from his living room window, hovering like some distorted Fuji on the dim eastern horizon. But they are; huddled together, piercing the sky, thrusting their asymmetrical selves into existence.