A little slice of heaven

For most paddlers, the tantalizing jade-green waters of Diablo Lake are merely a fluid path to a bigger lake deeper in the North Cascades remoteness, not much more than a pretty prelude.

But if you spend a night or two here, Diablo – "devil" in Spanish – will prove much more than just the way to somewhere else. If you sit on the shore at one of Diablo's three cozy boat-in campgrounds in the evening, watching the trout jump and the waves lap, you just might feel you'd rather be nowhere else.