North Cascades National Park offers one of the most beautiful alpine landscapes in the United States: ice seas, hanging valleys, waterfalls, enclos lakes in glacial circuses.Unlike other mountain ranges in Cascade Range (Mount Baker, Glacier Peak) located outside the park, the break peaks of the North cascades are not of volcanic origin; they were carved by waterfalls and glaciers in a pure granitic rock after the uprisings in the tertiary and quaternary eras. The park alone comprises more than half of the glaciers in the United States (excluding Alaska). Remnants of the old glaciation, the 318 glaciers dug large troughs like that of Lake Chelan and shaped summits which, within the park, do not exceed 2 800 m. In the west, the chain forms a climatic barrier that retains precipitation: there are many lakes and rivers, the lush vegetation; the particularly leafy forests have a diverse fauna: grizzly bears, brown bears, elk, wolves, beaver, eagles. The eastern slope receives less sunshine; the climate is drier and the slopes are covered with pine and shrubs. Hundreds of kilometres of hiking paths are a paradise for adventurers and climbers.

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