Lowell Skoog /// History of the N. Cascades
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Lowell Skoog has been working over the past decade or more to collect and document some of the accomplishments and events that have occured in the infamously rugged, and difficult terrain of the Northern Cascades.
Check out the links below to follow Lowell’s progress and some of the interesting things going on in the Cascades.
http://www.alpenglow.org/ski-history/
The purpose of the Alpenglow Ski
Mountaineering History Project is to research and document the story of ski
mountaineering in Washington. It celebrates the people, places and events that
have shaped the sport in this region.
http://alpenglow.org/themes/ncascade-winter/index.html
No Place to Linger (excerpt from webpage)
The North Cascades are notoriously inhospitable in winter. The greatest
seasonal snowfall on earth — 1140 inches — was recorded at Mount Baker Ski Area
in 1998-99. A typical Cascade winter brings not only deep snow, but also periods
of heavy rain. For the winter traveler, these conditions mean exhausting travel,
danger from hypothermia, and serious avalanche risk.
History of the North Cascades by Lowell Skoog. Check out the book that Lowell is working on.
http://written-in-the-snows.net/
Thanks Lowell, for the hard work. We all love what you are doing and will spread the word in the ski mountaineering community, so we can get motivated and use the information at hand to ski new lines, climb unclimbed faces, and push the sport in a natural way to progressing past the past. Thanks! Cheers, Happy Turns!