Cascade Pass

Hiking trail to Cascade Pass

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The Cascade Pass ( also known as Skagit Pass) is a 1643 m high pass, which leads in Marblemount (Washington) over the northern Cascade Range.

It offers the fastest connection between the Cascade River and Lake Chelan, is now in North Cascades National Park and is crossed only by hiking trails. It can be reached from the west, from the Cascade River Road, via a 5,6 km long hiking trail. The trail leads to the east on to Stehekin (Washington).

The highest point of the trail is located at the tree line and allows a wide visibility. He is also a meeting place and starting point for mountaineers. The north leads a gentle ridge to the summit of Sahale Mountain, and on the meadows of the Boston Basin and the peaks behind it. Leading towards the south ridge to another Mixup Peak, Magic Mountain and Cache Col and thus makes the Cascade Pass for entry into the Ptarmigan Traverse, which leads to the Dome Peak.

The pass was originally a trade route of the Indians between the coast and the interior. One of the first white men who have explored and mapped the Cascade Pass, part of the New York reporter Frank Wilkeson. The discoverer Alexander Ross has crossed the Cascade Range Cascade probably 1814 using the pass. However, its documents are too imprecise to determine the route accurately.