The clouds parted as we drove into Newhalem for the start of the Seattle City Light's Diablo Lake Adventure Tour. You take a bus from Newhalem up the North Cascades Highway to Diablo Dam where you board the Alice Ross III for a tour up the lake to Ross Dam and back. When we got back to Newhalem, we took the Ladder Creek Falls Loop trail.
Here is a link to an article about the Diablo Lake tour: Click Here.
Photos titles ending in "b" are by Bill and in "p" by Pip.
-Cascade Bill Mooseker
Date(s): August 2, 2008. Album by Cascade Bill. 1 - 138 of 138 Total. 2370 Visits.
Hi Loved you photo's, my wife and I just returned from our trip there 8-2012 We heard of the bulldozer that went down the horsetail gorge and I was looking to learn alittle more about how and what year it went down. Thank you for your post.... :) - Daniel Neuendorf, Tue, 21 Aug 2012 7:53PM
enlarge 151KB, 800x600 1 diablod-001p Old No. 6 - Newhalem, Wa. This is the start of the Seattle City LIght's Diablo Lake Adventure- a bus and boat tour of Diablo Lake.
enlarge 163KB, 800x600 2 diablod-002p Closeup of Old No. 6.
enlarge 87KB, 800x600 3 diablod-004p 3d Map of Seattle City Light's Diablo and Ross Lakes. You can see Ross Dam here.
enlarge 811KB, 618x800 4 ROSS DAM.pdf Map of Diablo Lake (Maptech CD Map)
enlarge 134KB, 800x600 5 diablod-005p View from the bus of looking down from Diablo Dam.
enlarge 93KB, 800x600 6 diablod-006p View from the boat before we leave - The bus driver backed the bus down a narrow lane. I would have ended up in the lake if I had tried it.
enlarge 67KB, 800x600 7 diablod-007p Pyramid Peak from the boat.
enlarge 72KB, 600x800 8 diablod-008b Another view of Pyramid Peak.
enlarge 70KB, 800x600 9 diablod-009b Mary Jane and Pip - you can see the boat dock in the background with the bus just behind the building.
enlarge 77KB, 800x600 10 diablod-010b Diablo Dam from the boat.
enlarge 81KB, 800x600 11 diablod-011p Another view of the dam.
enlarge 72KB, 800x600 12 diablod-012p Heading up the lake.
enlarge 102KB, 800x600 13 diablod-013p Canoeists out on the lake.
enlarge 86KB, 800x600 14 diablod-014p Bill and Sue - Sue took a lot of heat from her cousins because of her hat.
enlarge 159KB, 800x600 15 diablod-015p The boat goes up a narrow channel almost to Ross Dam.
enlarge 138KB, 800x600 16 diablod-016p Entering the channel.
enlarge 115KB, 800x600 17 diablod-017p Sue.
enlarge 88KB, 600x800 18 diablod-018p Looking back - Pyramid Peak to the right.
enlarge 78KB, 800x600 19 diablod-019b MJ and Pip at the stern.
enlarge 85KB, 800x600 20 diablod-020b Pip and Mary Jane.
enlarge 92KB, 600x800 21 diablod-021p Another View.
enlarge 117KB, 800x600 22 diablod-022p Going up the narrow channel.
enlarge 74KB, 600x800 23 diablod-024b You can see one of the bridges across a gorge for the North Cascades Highway.
enlarge 167KB, 800x600 24 diablod-025p A closer view - looking at the map I think that this is Horsetail Creek.
enlarge 148KB, 600x800 25 diablod-026p Another view.
enlarge 143KB, 800x600 26 diablod-027p Landing and boat launch near the Ross Dam powerhouse.
enlarge 136KB, 800x600 27 diablod-028p Dock at Ross Lake powerhouse.
enlarge 162KB, 800x600 28 diablod-029p Coming up to Ross Dam.
enlarge 151KB, 800x600 29 diablod-030p Pedestrian bridge for hikers- Ross Dam in background.
enlarge 148KB, 800x600 30 diablod-031p Boathouse for Ross Dam powerhouse.
enlarge 134KB, 800x600 31 diablod-032p Ross Dam and Powerhouse- It doesn't look very high but Ross Lake is 400' higher than Diablo Lake.
enlarge 91KB, 600x800 32 diablod-033b Ross Dam and powerhouse.
enlarge 110KB, 800x600 33 diablod-034b Another view.
enlarge 132KB, 800x600 34 diablod-036b Going back we go under the pedestrian bridge again.
enlarge 122KB, 800x600 35 diablod-037p Tunnel through rock buttress gives road access to the powerhouse.
enlarge 115KB, 800x600 36 diablod-038p City Light worker in motorboat.
enlarge 100KB, 800x600 37 diablod-039b Mary Jane and PIp enjoying the view.
enlarge 108KB, 800x600 38 diablod-040b Looking back at Ross Dam.
enlarge 104KB, 600x800 39 diablod-041b Heading back up the channel.
enlarge 86KB, 600x800 40 diablod-042b Another view of Pyramid.
enlarge 76KB, 600x800 41 diablod-043b Sue and Mary Jane.
enlarge 95KB, 800x600 42 diablod-044b Sue and Mary Jane.
enlarge 91KB, 800x600 43 diablod-045p Vew of far away snowfields.
enlarge 80KB, 800x600 52 diablod-055p Passing the two islands.
enlarge 66KB, 800x600 53 diablod-056p Looking towards the Dam.
enlarge 107KB, 800x600 54 diablod-057p Off the boat now - If you wanted to you could walk across the dam and be picked up by the bus on the other side.
enlarge 106KB, 600x800 55 diablod-058p View of Pyramid from above the boathouse.
enlarge 103KB, 800x600 56 diablod-059p Looking across the gorge towards the access road and Pyramid Mtn.
enlarge 145KB, 800x600 57 diablod-060p The spillways and access road.
enlarge 124KB, 600x800 58 diablod-061b Looking down from atop the dam.
enlarge 119KB, 800x600 59 diablod-062b Mary Jane.
enlarge 97KB, 800x600 60 diablod-063b You can see the curve of the dam as it arches across the gorge.
enlarge 95KB, 800x600 61 diablod-064p Pip and Mary Jane.
enlarge 101KB, 600x800 62 diablod-065b The face of the dam.
enlarge 145KB, 800x600 77 diablod-082p View of Diablo Dam from bus.
enlarge 152KB, 800x600 78 diablod-083p The Diablo Incline - It's not used anymore.
enlarge 138KB, 600x800 79 diablod-084p Falls - view from bus.
enlarge 105KB, 800x600 80 diablod-085p Another falls from the bus.
enlarge 126KB, 800x600 81 diablod-086p The Gorge Powerhouse in Newhalem.
enlarge 184KB, 800x600 82 diablod-087p Bill on suspension bridge across the Skagit River - we were going on the Ladder Creek Falls and Gardens walking tour.
enlarge 182KB, 800x600 83 diablod-088p The Skagit from the bridge.
enlarge 110KB, 600x800 84 diablod-089b The Gorge Powerhouse.
enlarge 168KB, 800x600 85 diablod-090p The Gardens - Not as maintained and kept up as it was in the past, but it is still very pretty.
