Photo credit: John Scurlock

I first travelled in the Pasayten as an impressionable 19-year old backpacker on the PCT in August of 1973. I recall my thought then, that although I had already spent five weeks alone in the wild areas of the Cascades farther south, I was about to enter true wilderness - silent, vast, and mysterious. Over the years I have visited many of the Pasayten's most remote areas; yet to this day I regard the Pasayten with that same feeling. I could not have imagined that I would be photographing it someday during winter from the air, and so I consider myself most fortunate to be able to share these images now with you.

John Scurlock
March 16, 2007

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