White Pass is just east of the town of Packwood on Hwy 12. It was the headquarters for the fire fighters that were trying to control a fire just south of this point. A fire that caused a detour on the PCT to the south. So this is where I will start my Washington hiking and I will go north. There are fires to the north as well but they are a couple hundred miles away and at this point had caused no closures that I know of.

So I will be walking through the William O. Douglas Wilderness in the Wenatchee National Forest. The William O. Douglas Wilderness was designated such in 1984, while Ronald Regan was president and has about 169000 acres. You can read more here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/okawen/recarea/?recid=79426

The Wenatchee National Forest encompasses 1,735,394 acres and contains 6 wilderness areas. In 2000 the Okanogan (1,499,013-acres) and Wenatchee national forests were basically combined and is now called the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Established in 1911, William Howard Taft president. More info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanogan_National_Forest

As you can see from the pictures below it is a beautiful part of the trail. Meadows and Lakes.