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01 018 Sawk Mtn and Skagit R from near Concrete. (146k)
01 049 Mt Buckner Ripsaw Ridge and the Boston Gl (146k)
When the novice North Cascades traveler takes those first steps to explore the wilderness and they decide to "go into the mountains", they soon find they have to first "go into the valleys". The western valleys of the Pacific Northwest are mostly covered with dense, dark, dank and dreary evergreen forests. These bastions of thick brush and heavy moss rarely reveal teasing glimpses. North Cascade National Park. June 71
01 055 Boston Glacier view Mt Buckner Ripsaw Ridge. (159k)
01 056 Buckner, Ripsaw Ridge and Boston Peak Glacier. (200k)
02 003 Up Thunder Ck to Mt Buckner and Boston Gl (247k)
On the return to Thunder Ck in the North Cascades National Park, we went straight to the good view spots like this one near the designated camp named Tricouni. The National Parks Service limits overnight trailside camping to developed sites and only if the party obtains a back- country permit. The permits are still free. But, the quantity is finite. Mount Buckner and the Boston Glacier are at the head of the valley. 1972
02 013 Boston Peak Sharkfin Tower and Boston Gl (135k)
Boston Peak and Sharkfin Tower at the head of Skagit Queen Creek. John Russner and two others crossed through Sharkfin Col (center) in 1892 and made the dangerous crossing of the Boston Glacier. The reward was a green ore ledge at the 7500ft level, found to be rich in silver. M.E. Field hauled a mill over Park Ck Pass, with one piece weighing 450 lbs. Operations folded by 1913, yet relics are still found along the Ck.
02 015 Forbidden Peak and the Boston Glacier. (113k)
02 019 Mt Buckner Ripsaw Ridge and the Boston Glaciers (197k)
Mount Buckner (or Buckner Mtn), Ripsaw Ridge and the Boston Glacier. The Mountain is named after Henry F. Buckner, who was manager of the mining company which located claims and mined in upper Horseshoe Basin in the early 1900s. In the winter of 1909 Henry F. Buckner had a crew of 30 who worked "buried" under snow in Horseshoe Basin. Probably the Davenport Group of claims. North Cascades Park. July 1972.
02 020 Forbidden Peak and the Boston Glacier (169k)
Forbidden Pk and the Boston Gl. The remarkable ridges on Forbidden are so quintessentially perfect, and its setting so grandiose the Peak has special status in the Cascade Pass area. 72
02 021 Boston Pk, Sharkfin Tower and Boston Gl. (150k)
02 022 Looking North and Down Thunder Creek. (155k)
01 056m Thunder Crk Skagit Queen Map. (1256k)
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