Our first time in this high mountain pass. We felt awe at the power of nature as we gazed out across the Glacier Peak Wilderness. The shrinking Lyman Glacier is below us with the Lyman Lakes beyond. The Cascades are a tortured range buckled up from convulsions of volcanism, earthquakes, ice ages, & gigantic floods. Our human-caused global climate disruption was already apparent here in August of 2006.