Alpine Lakes Wilderness & Mount Hinman, Washington

The Alpine Lakes is the largest Wilderness area near the population centers of Puget Sound, at approximately 394,000 acres (1600 square km). It is located on the Cascade Range between Interstate 90 (Snoqualmie Pass) and US Route 2 (Stevens Pass). Bald Eagle Peak dominates this scene in the northern center of the print standing 6,230 feet (1,899 meters). Snow clad Mount Hinman at 7,492 feet (2,284 meters) on the eastern side of this print, is the birthplace of Hinman and Lynch Glaciers, and the beginning of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River in the Dutch Miller Gap (southwest). The northern ridgeline of the gap is home to Iron Cap Mountain and Big Snow Mountain. The dozens of lakes in this region give the name to the Wilderness. From the northwestern lake, going southeasterly: Panorama Lake, Purvis Lake, Lake Malachite, Cooper Lake, Little Heart Lake, Delta Lake, Big Heart Lake, Angeline Lake, Otter Lake, Azurite Lake, Chetwoot Lake, Gold Lake, and Crawford Lake. From the summit of Bald Eagle Peak, southerly, Nazanne Lake, Jewell Lake, Lochet Lake, Al Lake, Hade Lake, Lake Ilswoot, Emerald Lake, Tahl Lake, Opal Lake, La Bahn Lake, and Williams Lake.