North Cascades National Park Bingo

Look for a white shape on a cliff so steep it should not be able to hold an animal.

It is one of the best climbers on Earth. Each hoof has a hard rim around a soft, rubbery pad that grips rock like a climbing shoe, and the two toes can spread apart, so a mountain goat can stand on a ledge no wider than its foot and climb slopes far too steep for a person.

Stand at the railed pullout on State Route 20 and find Colonial, Pyramid, and Davis peaks behind the water.

The signed pullout on State Route 20 looking down on the turquoise reservoir, with Colonial, Pyramid, and Davis peaks behind it.

Watch a gray bird bob up and down on a wet rock, then walk straight down into the cold creek.

A dipper's eyelids are lined with white feathers, so each blink flashes a bright white wink, which biologists think may double as a signal to other dippers over the roar of a rapid.

Photograph the color of Diablo Lake, which comes from rock flour that glaciers grind off the mountains upstream.

Find ice sitting high on a peak in the middle of summer, because this park holds more than 300 glaciers.

The complex holds more than 300 glaciers per NPS, more than any U.S.

Walk the flat 100-foot Sterling Munro boardwalk until a wall of peaks opens up in front of you.

Newhalem is the only developed cluster on the corridor, a Seattle City Light company town that pre-dates the park and sits in Upper Skagit homeland along the Sk…

A gray bird lands close by to study your lunch, so keep the snacks closed and let it hunt its own food.

A Canada jay's spit glands are so much bigger than a typical songbird's that scientists have compared them to a woodpecker's, all so it can coat food in sticky saliva and stick it to a tree.

This lake is not natural, so look downstream for the dam that made it, finished in 1930.

The turquoise reservoir most people picture when they think of this corridor.

Say Stehekin out loud, the name the Chelan people gave the head of the lake, which means the way through.

Crush one flat green spray between your fingers and smell the sharp, sweet cedar.

Northwest Coast peoples call it the tree of life. From one tree came canoes, house planks, totem poles, baskets, rope, hats, and even soft clothing woven from the inner bark.

Find the long lake that runs 23 miles north to Canada, reached only on foot or by boat.

A 23-mile-long reservoir behind Ross Dam (Seattle City Light, built to its full 540-foot height by 1949), running north to the Canadian border at Hozomeen.

Look for a small blue and chestnut duck sitting in whitewater that should knock it over.

A pair of harlequin ducks can mate for multiple years running. One Glacier National Park male, tracked by his leg band, returned to breed with the same female for three consecutive seasons.

Ride the Stehekin shuttle to the falls and stand close enough to feel the spray on your face.

A short walk-up to a waterfall whose uppermost tier drops about 312 feet in the Stehekin valley, reached by the NPS shuttle from the ferry landing per NPS.

Find the blue flower spike with leaves shaped like little green hands.

Its roots host bacteria that pull nitrogen straight out of the air and turn it into fertilizer, so lupine can move into bare volcanic gravel and start building soil for other plants.

Walk the short paved loop and look down on the highway hairpin under the granite spires.

The east-side bookend to the Diablo Lake Overlook: a short paved loop from a parking lot to a railed viewpoint over the granite Liberty Bell group and the Early…

Come back to Newhalem after dark and find the waterfall lit up in colored lights behind the powerhouse.

Listen for a rattling scold overhead, then look for green cone scales dropped on the trail.

A Douglas squirrel doesn't wait for cones to ripen and fall. It cuts them green, while the seeds are still tucked in tight, and lets them drop to the forest floor with a thud you can hear from the trail.

Strong legs only: climb about 3.7 miles of switchbacks to a saddle people have crossed for trade since time immemorial.

An open alpine meadow at a saddle that the Lake Chelan and Upper Skagit peoples have used as a trans-mountain trade and travel route since time immemorial.

Photograph a young tree growing straight out of a fallen log, which foresters call a nurse log.

Look into clear, shallow gravel water for a big dark fish holding still, and keep your feet out of the gravel.

Chinook salmon are also called "king salmon" for a simple reason: they are the largest of all seven Pacific salmon species.

Find the 9,131-foot peak with glaciers on it in the northwest corner of the park.

A 9,131-foot glacier-clad peak in the park's northwest corner.

Walk the old homestead orchard in Stehekin and count how many kinds of apples still grow there.

A National Register historic homestead in the roadless Stehekin valley that still grows heirloom apples, with an autumn cider pressing families can walk through…

Put one hand in a creek fed by snow and ice, then count how many seconds you can hold it there.

Walk the wooden boardwalk on Riverside Avenue at the east end of the highway and get ice cream.

The corridor itself is gas-food-lodging-free, so the food a family needs sits in the gateway towns.