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A golden opportunity: Autumn larch in the Cascades’ Enchantment (The Seattle time - Oct 16, 2008)

When the author head east toward Leavenworth for a hike up mega-step Aasgard Pass, it is an wildness wonderful land with high mountain lakes. Larch are unusual there. In Autumn, the needle usually change from green to yellow before falling to the ground; all the color changing larch live on the eastern slopes of the Cascades at 5,000 feet and above. “We have a long time hiker who comes in here who says he can set his calendar by it, without failing. The larch always turn yellow on October 10” said by Joyce Brown – works at the North Cascades Nation Park information desk in Sedro-Woodley. You should hide up from the Colchuck Lake about 2,200 to order to see them. The other side of the lake at the foot of Aasgard Pass had plenty of gold. The past itself was tri-color: gray rocks with the white of the new snow.

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