Last weekend – just before the heatwave kicked in – we planned to head up for probably the Northwest’s most famous hike: The Enchantment Lakes in the Cascade mountains. It’s a 3-night/4-day back-country hike through some stunning scenery and we were really looking forward to it, right up until Karen was on the receiving end of a tough sideways tackle at her five-a-side game the Sunday before. Ouch!
Karen is not someone to let a little thing like a torn ligament ruin a holiday, though, so she strapped on a knee brace and we set off bright and early from Leavenworth on Thursday morning.
Cue a comedy of errors that included forgetting bug spray, leaving the topo map on the roof of the car and us getting split up from Trika and Jenny on a single lane road, and the omens were not good.
Luckily, that was about it for disasters and we were soon hiking up through some lovely pine forest. It took most of the day but we set up camp on a great site overlooking Lake Colchuck.
In the evening, we enjoyed the soon-to-be-famous campfire pizza courtesy of Trika, and had a first night party.
We must have been doing something right (or wrong) as we had some cute gate-crashers – here’s one of them – a very healthy-sized chipmunk golden-mantled ground squirrel (thanks Simon!). I think he was just after our ‘gorp’ (aka trail mix).
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