North Cascade Mountains

Living in Washington state, we go camping a lot and usually always have mountains as our backdrop, or we’re hiking around them. Recently I went to Beaver Lake which is in the North Cascade Mountains. It’s a pretty easy hike with a lake that is surrounded by slabs of solid exposed granite. Which I found out later that a large part of the North Cascades are made up of granite from magma erupting from volcanoes like Mount Baker, which recrystallized the previous mountain range at different depths to form the core of what is there today.

Reference: https://www.nps.gov/noca/learn/nature/geologicformations.htm