NORTH CASCADES — Through 33 switchbacks, thousands of biting flies, and crowds of hikers, Margaret Miller managed to hike the Cascade Pass trail’s 3.7 miles of rocky, steep terrain in about six hours. At the age of 88, she is legally blind. Miller returned to the national park for the first time in almost two decades on Saturday, August 14, for the beginning of the National Park Service’s annual revegetation effort. Miller and her late husband Joe were solely responsible for initiating the re-vegetation process in the Cascade Pass area, and were one of five couples who fought to make the North Cascades National Park a reality.

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