MOUNT BAKER WILDFLOWERS TOUR & HIKE Skagit Guided Adventures offers small group tours & hikes for the wildflower enthusiast. They promise to color your spirit! Mount Baker Wildflowers explode in colorful displays every summer, especially in the sub-alpine and alpine meadows. The array of colors is phenomenal, with all shades of reds, oranges, yellows, greens, whites, pinks,…
Sauk Mountain June Wildflower Hiking Tour – North Cascades, Washington This Sauk Mountain June Wildflower Hiking tour is ideal for the wildflower enthusiast! Skagit Guided Adventures offers small group Wildflower Tours & Hikes in the North Cascades to “Re-Wild” the Spirit! Sauk Mountain is nestled in the Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, in the heart of the North Cascades. The…
MT BAKER SUMMER GUIDED TOUR Glen, visiting all the way from Western Australia, took the Amtrak Cascades train from Seattle to the Mount Vernon station. He arrived at 9:30am and off we went on the 2-hr ride along the Mount Baker Scenic Byway to our Mt Baker Summer Guided Tour. We traveled through farmland, forest, and up to…
MOUNT BAKER WILDFLOWER HIKING TOUR – SCHREIBERS MEADOW IN JUNE Skagit Guided Adventures offers small group hikes for the wildflower enthusiast that promise to Color Your Spirit! Wildflowers make their colorful debut in mid-June as the snow begins to melt away. This time of year, Schreibers Meadow (a sub-alpine meadow) is painted in pink with pink mountain…
Sauk Mountain Summer Guided Wildflower Hike – North Cascades, Washington Leaving Anacortes at 2pm, we arrived at the Sauk Mountain trailhead at 3:30pm. It was foggy (completely foggy), we could only see about 100 ft all around. But that did not stop us; instead, it made us feel as if we were about to enter a…
Lake Twentytwo Hiking Tour – North Cascades, Washington Join Skagit Guided Adventures small group Lake Twentytwo Hiking Tour to experience the wilderness in the heart of the North Cascades! Lake Twentytwo trail takes you through an exemplary old-growth forest guarded by giant cedars, firs & hemlocks, a healthy understory of multi-aged trees and berry bushes, an expansive…
Mount Baker Summer Guided Day Hike – North Cascades, WA Jen hopped on the Amtrak Cascades from Seattle to spend the weekend in Anacortes. “I want to hike in the North Cascades” she said, so Saturday we ventured on our Mount Baker Summer Guided Day Hike to the Park Butte trail. Weather: sunny with…
MOUNT BAKER JUNE DAY TOUR Hurray, it’s the end of June and the end of the road is now open! From Anacortes, the 2-hr ride along the Mount Baker Scenic Byway was beautiful. We traveled from the coast, through farmland, to forest, and up to 5140 ft to the Artist Point parking lot. The parking lot is…
PNW FOREST ORCHIDS TOUR IN THE NORTH CASCADES Did you know orchids also grow in the temperate rainforest of the PNW? In NW Washington, from the islands of the Salish Sea to the old-growth forest of the North Cascades, you can find about 10 species of forest orchids. They all grow from the ground under…
MOUNT BAKER JULY DAY TOUR Glen, visiting all the way from Western Australia, took the Amtrak Cascades train from Seattle to the Mount Vernon station. He arrived at 9:30am and off we went on the 2-hr ride along the Mount Baker Scenic Byway. We traveled through farmland, forest, and up to 5140 ft to the Artist…