As we walked along the PCT, there were three distinct topographical landscapes; rocky peaks, ridges and cirques of volcanic and glacial activity, dense, old growth forest with majestic Douglas Fir and Hemlock giants and fragrant, high mountain meadows wreathed in flowers. All were beautiful but of them, the most awe inspiring were the huge, ice and rock strewn basins of twisted and scoured boulders, formed and shaped over millions of years by intense forces of heat and ice. Our first view of the valley below Fire Creek Pass, cloaked in ethereal, swirling mist was unforgettable; ageless, brutal but overwhelmingly beautiful.
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