Randoneee race at Alpental, going upvalley, starting at the traditional winter route; lot 4. Even the corporation admits this is a wilderness access point.

http://www.restore.org/Forests/loonmtn.html Restore: The North Woods

Conservation group in Maine

http://www.crag.org/ Cascade Resources Advocacy Group

educational and legal assistance for the citizen activist.

http://www.westlx.org/ Western Land Exchange Project

a highly detailed site based in WA, working on a national level with several high profile cases.

http://www.wilderness.net/ Wilderness.net

an organization which advocates for wilderness areas. This comprehensive website includes the Wilderness Act of 1964.

http://www.wildernesswatch.org/ Wilderness Watch

keeping wilderness wild!

http://www.wildwilderness.org/ Wild Wilderness.org

http://www.wildwilderness.org/wi/resorts.htm

this group opposes private industry from controlling public land.

http://www.skiareacitizens.com/

based in Colorado, this group rates ski areas for environmental friendliness.

http://www.alpental.com/

some history and a basic photographic reference to the backcountry. pretty cool!

http://cascadeclimbers.com/

a nice site for the local climbing community.

http://www.iceclimb.com/WA.html

ice climbing site with a nice write up about the Alpental ice from the upper lots.

http://www.sverdina.com/chair/chair1.htm

another climbing site featuring climbing from the upper lots.

http://ericsbasecamp.net/trips/ChairPk2/ChairPk2.htm

these folks also climb from the upper lots.

http://www.summitpost.org/show/route_link.pl/route_id/2840/object_id/762

Chair peak NE buttress. Still more climbing starting from the upper lots.

http://www.alpenthyme.org/alp/snowshoe121504/snowshoe121504.htm

These people encountered some problems while trying to access public land at Alpental.

http://www.telemarktips.com/

check it out!

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/recreation/special/wilderness/alpine_lakes_regs.shtml

federal regulations for the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area.

http://www.earthjustice.org/news/display.html?ID=551

Booth Creek privatizes public land at Targhee and gets slapped with a lawsuit!

http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/grandtargheeswap1.htm

more on the illegal land swap. This could happen at Alpental.

http://www.i90wildlifebridges.org/

Hyak to Easton wildlife corridor.

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1999/January/Day-29/i1974.htm

speaks for itself.

http://www.saveourcanyons.org/

conservation in the Wasatch

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/pacnw/nc/snp1.html

a cool geological map of the pass.

http://www.conagrafoods.com/media/media_release.jsp?ID=20020521

http://www.conagrafoods.com/investors/investor_release.jsp?ID=20020521_qa

http://www.spcnetwork.com/mii/2002/020556.htm

http://foodhaccp.com/msgboard.mv?parm_func=showmsg+parm_msgnum=1007863

pork barrel politics; irradiate this!

Miscellaneous Articles about Alpental:

http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/waterfalldetail.php?id=7

Alpental Falls as viewable from the upper parking areas.

http://www.cascadeclimber.com/alpental_valley,_jan_19.htm

http://www.avalanche.org/proc-show.php3?OID=16737

Alpental Conditions Update

check frequently for new data

Alpental Telemetry

NWAC Avalanche Statement

Current Forecast for West Slopes and Passes Central Cascades

I-90 Info

Ski Area Environmental Report Card

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"There is no hunger like land hunger, and no object for which men are more ready to use unfair and desperate means than the acquisition of land." �Gifford Pinchot, The Fight for Conservation