Raised in Seattle, I’m thankful to have once called these mountains home. These shy and beautiful mountains inspired me to rope up, make a career of photography, and go back to school for glacier science. Now I regularly travel back from Colorado to satiate my appetite for their granite faces, tree-drenched valleys, and lofty alpine basins on a life-long quest to build a comprehensive portrait of my “home range” and put my images to work for conservation advocacy in the region.
Ethan Welty is a Seattle-born photographer on a life-long quest to photograph and advocate for his beloved “home range”, Washington’s North Cascades. Back home in Boulder, he forages for his food, maps backcountry huts, and applies photography to the study of glaciers or a PhD at the University of Colorado. Visit Ethan’swebsite
Dorado Needle in clouds, from Eldorado Peak, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Bunchberry dogwood (Cornus canadensis) in bloom along the Little Beaver Trail, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Kevin Steffa leads his climbing party across the Sulphide Glacier on Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington. Point 7935 emerges through the clouds.
Sunrise over Mount Baker, from Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Dead standing trees in a forest burn area on Icicle Ridge, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington.
Icicles slowly melt inside a snow cave at the base of Dorado Needle, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Obadiah Reid (left) and Grace Marx watch from Picket Pass as the Southern Pickets emerge from the clouds, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Small cascade on Fourth of July Pass Trail, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, Washington.
Hikers stand on the shore of Lake Ann, and the reflection of Mount Shuksan, in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
The Triplets and Cascade Peak (front center), North Cascades National Park, Washington.
A small waterfall trickles into Bacon Creek, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) stripped of their bark in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The bark, easily removed by making a cut at the base and peeling upward, is traditionally used for making rope, clothing, and other soft goods. Harvesting in single strips avoids killing the tree.
Yoav Bar-Ness is reflected in a tarn above Lake Ann, Mount Baker Wilderness, Washington. Mount Baker is visible in the distance.
Colonial Creek Falls, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Flowers and waterfalls in Colonial Glacier Basin, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Water cascades over rocks at the outlet of a lake in an alpine basin used as a base camp for climbs of Glacier Peak in Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
Whatcom Peak disappears at dusk as smoke from a nearby forest fire envelopes the Tapto Lakes basin, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Silver Lake, Chilliwack Range, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
Jim Prager scrambles up the Southwest Ridge of Luna Peak (class 3) at sunrise, North Cascades National Park, Washington. The Southern Pickets are visible in the distance.
False hellebore (Veratrum viride) in Thornton Lakes basin, North Cascades, National Park, Washington.
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Raised in Seattle, I’m thankful to have once called these mountains home. These shy and beautiful mountains inspired me to rope up, make a career of photography, and go back to school for glacier science. Now I regularly travel back from Colorado to satiate my appetite for their granite faces, tree-drenched valleys, and lofty alpine basins on a life-long quest to build a comprehensive portrait of my “home range” and put my images to work for conservation advocacy in the region.
