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Larch season - Maple Pass Loop Trail, North Cascades - Washington - 10/3/21

A lovely larch reflection in the North Cascades

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It’s fall here in the Pacific Northwest, which means it’s finally larch season! Trails east of the Cascades are filling up with hikers on their annual larch marches.

Larch season, or even better, larch madness, occurs in late September or early October as the needles change from green to brilliant gold before dropping.

This little booklet from the Department of Agriculture in 1984 is focused on lumber and production, but it still serves as a great guide to our favorite deciduous conifer. These trees grow in parts of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia. The larch was considered a weed species until the 1940s, but lumber production increased steadily after its value was recognized; in addition to resilient lumber, larches also provide pulp for paper as well as a gum called arabinoglactan, which was used for coating lithographic plates and as a pill or tablet binder by the pharmaceutical trade. And, as the booklet says, “the tree provides considerable pleasure to many recreationists” (6).

Lowery, David P., and United States. Forest Service. Western Larch. Rev. Oct. 1984]. ed., Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture : [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Distributor], 1984.

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