Cutthroat Pass Panorama
The hike to Cutthroat Pass is an easy one, both to get to and to hike. The trail leaves from the parking area at the north side of Rainy Pass, along the North Cascades Highway. It’s about 5 miles or so to the top. Along the way there are streams, meadows and higher up, camps.
Cutthroat Pass Trail
Sunrise at Cutthroat Pass
I made the jaunt up to capture some fall colors. We slept on slabs at the top of the pass.
View from camp atop Cutthroat Pass
View from camp atop Cutthroat Pass
Cutthroat Peak
Milky Way from Cutthroat Pass
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter 
These are stunning photographs!
this place looks amazing!!!!
The North Cascades are full of incredible hikes, with out many people!
Wow! How beautiful. And what a forbidding name!
The North Cascades peaks have a lot of awesome names: Mount Terror; Forbidden Peak, Mount Despair, Desolation Peak, Mount Torment, Devils Dome, someone had a lot fun with the names!
Wonderfull and stunning photo
Thanks much!
There are a whole host of cool names for peaks in the North Cascades: Forbidden Peak, Mount Terror, Desolation Peak, Mount Despair, Sinister Peak and lots more! Someone sure had fun naming them!
Re: cut throat pass. Beautiful. What do you mean you slept on “slabs”?
Slabs of rock! I wanted to spend the night atop the pass where there was a spectacular view, the only (relatively) flat spot was on these big, smooth slabs of rock…
Andrew, I love your picture of the Milky Way. You must have been using something to track the stars during your time exposure?
No, no tracking device. I have a 24 mm lens, wide open aperture, ISO at its highest level, maybe a 20 to 25 sec exposure. The orange on the horizon was from a forest fire many miles away.
Woah! I’m going to have to try that!
What camera and lens do you have? And do you have any version of Photoshop?
Since the first of the year, most of the pics were made with a Lumix GF1 and its kit lens that were gifted to me by a dear friend. The remainder of the images were made with a point and shoot, Canon SX 160. I do have PS3, but I edit in Lightroom 4 because it is quick and easy. The perfect thing for a busy teacher.