#43: North Cascades National Park

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Only a three-hour drive from Seattle, North Cascades National Park looks like you’ve traveled all the way to Switzerland. With its 300 glaciers and soaring mountain peaks, North Cascades is a wilderness park best explored on foot during the summer months. We discuss our favorite hikes, as well as a unique park lodge in the tiny town of Stehekin that can only be reached by boat, seaplane, or on foot. And we share a story about a frightening night we spent in a remote backpacking campsite. Some of the topics we discuss in this episode: The three NPS units that make up the North Cascades park complex Where the Visitor Centers are The best time to visit for hikers Why this is one of the least visited national parks Where we like to stay when we visit the park Our favorite hike in the national park How to get to North Cascades Lodge in Stehekin Fun things to do and see in the Stehekin area What happened to us during our backpacking trip to Stehekin Links to more information: Book a room at North Cascades Lodge in Stehekin Where to learn more about our books and travels Join the conversation on Facebook - we want to hear from you! Check out our Instagram account Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.6	So one of the more recent bangs,
0:02.9	one of the really loud ones,
0:04.3	John and Lollie did wake up and we could hear Lollie.
0:07.1	So I know we wrote about this in Dear Bob and Su-Season 2.
0:10.0	She had her mouth guarded and she sits up and says,
0:13.2	what was that?
0:14.5	And then you have your pen mouth guarded.
0:17.8	And you said, it's the tweed, the tweed, the tweed.
0:23.8	So then now I'm stuck in a Lini-tunes cartoon.
0:31.0	With the two of you talking like Sylvester,
0:34.0	the cat, as to what we're going to do next.
0:36.3	John's still snoring.
0:37.5	I know.
0:50.8	This is the Dear Bob and Su podcast.
0:52.9	Our stories of adventures and misadventures
0:55.0	as we travel to all the US national parks
0:57.1	and other public lands.
0:58.6	I'm Matt Smith.
0:59.7	And I'm Karen Smith.
1:00.7	We are the authors of the Dear Bob and Su series of books.
1:04.3	On today's episode, we're discussing a national park
1:07.2	that looks like the Swiss Alps with its jagged mountain peaks.
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