Alpinist Magazine Issue 47 - Summer 2014 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Part II (1974–2012) For the

Part II (1974–2012) For the final part of our two-part series

Jim Harris and six friends trekked to the Cariboo Range's newest backcountry lodge

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 47 - Summer 2014 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Part II (1974–2012) For theIn his 1969 classic, Challenge of the North Cascades, Fred Beckey described the Picket Range of Washington State as "fortresses ringed by cliffs and jungle." And with names such as Terror, Fury, Challenger and Phantom, their summits have long seemed like part of some mythological realm beyond the reach of modern development. Fifty Years after the passage of the Wilderness Act, designed to protect such places, Forest McBrian explores the evolving ways