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Viewfinder Basecamp Viewfinder Basecamp Viewfinder Basecamp Viewfinder Basecamp xxxx xxxxxx xxxxx 16 BACKPACKER 03.2014 North Cascades NP Mt. Baker Colonial Creek Falls From one mountain to another: Welty snapped this sunrise Welty knew 2,854- foot Colonial Falls was a stunner, but he didn’t expect to see a portrait of Mt. Baker from the top of the Fisher Chimneys, a class 3 and 4 moun- taineering route on Mt. Shuksan. tiny rainbow on it at 6:30 a.m. in Colonial Basin, 3.8 miles up the Pyramid Lake Trail. “I panicked with excite- ment and hiked along the h illside to make some images in that moment when ice, rock, water, and rainbow coincided,” he says. Info nps.gov/noca
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