More wildflowers are pictured below. These are probably yellow groundsel. The white wildflowers below may be bedstraw. There are lots of animals in the mountains and valleys of North Cascades National Park. These animals include black bear, mountain goat, marmot, several species of deer, and many varieties of birds.
Deer are also plentiful in the park.
Far away from highways and inhabited areas, as along the Cascade River Road below, the animals may be quite unafraid of human beings. This curious fellow, a white-tailed deer, watched in the rain while the photographer changed lenses to capture him on film. Until fairly recently there was no highway which permitted vehicular traffic to cross the mountains in the North Cascades area. The highway can be seen below cutting through the upper center of the picture. Buildings North Cascades Park has one of the nicest visitor's centers in the national park system, actually located near the Skagit River in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area.