In North Cascades Park, Washington State, early September 1965, snapped by either Gary Snyder or Martine Algier, from a cache of color slides we recently unearthed. Courtesy Ginsberg Estate.
Allen’s journal entry from that week: Up early ate & climbed thru long plateau forest by white church river till we came to great meadows walled with brown ashen cone on one side and snow botched grey ridge on the other—White Mt.—to a place called White Pass, a hill saddle 6400 feet where standing we could look back on the ridges sunning up the glacier peak, and on the other side west we could see great ranges of glacial mountains—craggy in clear afternoon light stretching from one end of the Horizon to another
from Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, paperback due out this Fall from University of Minnesota Press.
