Interactive Panoramas from the Washington Cascades

Mt. Daniel from Mac Peak

           What's on This Page

The table below has links to interactive panoramas from the Cascade Range in Washington State as well as some older panoramas in booklet format.  Some panoramas are labeled, with thanks to John Roper for reviewing them.  Naming conventions below. The place name is linked to a TopoZone map. If not otherwise noted, the panoramas cover a full 360 degrees.

 

The old panorama in booklets were originally intended for the Forest Service but nothing came of that so I have added them to the listings below.

 

Origins:

The first panoramas from Cascade peaks I did were just for me. They were field guides with peak labels to compensate my poor memory. Friends at the Cle Elum Ranger District encouraged me to make a few pans for the two remaining fire lookouts in the district, and then one thing lead to another.

 

Who is this for?  

One of my goals was to document the Cle Elum Ranger District north of I-90 from a large number of vantage points within and along the boundary of the district. Along with the labeled panoramas in .pdf format from each of these locations, I hoped these interactive panoramas would be a useful tool for the district.

Larry’s Cascade Resource

           Last update: December 14, 2024

*Conventions:

 

Callout lines with arrowheads indicate that the feature either is not visible because of an intervening feature, or because it is obscured by fog, cloud or haze. (Some of these arrowheads had to be removed when recompiling the oldest panoramas from the booklets.)

 

Quotation marks indicate unofficial names. In most cases they are taken from Jeff Howbert's Master Peak List, or from what I understand is common local usage. Unofficial names (in quotes) not on the Master Peak List, or not common local usage are what I understand to be first ascent names.

 

Names from USGS topographic maps, Green Trails maps, or from Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide (CAG) are used without quotation marks. In addition, names from the now out of print Teanaway Country by Mary Sutliff, published in 1980 by Signpost Books are used in a few cases, and are enclosed in quotation marks.

 

More recently and following Beckey I have indicated first ascent names by enclosing them in brackets following the name found on USGS topo maps.

 

When locations are identified only by the elevation, and the USGS 7.5 minute maps note the elevation without a 'T' (for transit) the elevation was typically enclosed by single quotation marks (e.g. '6755').  I have dropped the single quotation marks in the most recent panos. Callouts for ridges are usually placed at the high point on the ridge unless it extends to a higher feature. If a ridge has 2 or more callouts, the high point is usually so indicated.

 

A special thanks to John Roper for his help on naming issues with the labeled panoramas, some of which have more than 400 features identified. However, all errors are mine. I have tried to keep these conventions consistent, but there have been some revisions since the earliest panos.

Interactive Panoramas from the Washington Cascades

If the panorama is black:

The latest MS browser and perhaps others automatically convert http:// addresses to https:// addresses, a feature called ‘automatic https’. The option to disable this feature seems to have been removed (9-2024).

 

If the panorama is black, remove the ‘s’ from the “https://” address for the panorama as displayed in the browser address bar.  All the Panorama Studio pans  have standard http:// addresses.