Photo: We're supposed to be on a trail?

After spending most of a week in our tents watching rainstorms pass thru we decided to bail out of the Southern Picketts in the North Cascades NP. Our choices were slim - a long 2 day traverse involving several rock faces, or the quick route - a descent of 4,000' thru Devil's Club,downed timber and other underbrush. The climax was a walk across a mass of slide alder - navigating from branch to branch about 10' off the ground.