{"id":6507,"date":"2019-08-13T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:31:22","slug":"the-enchantments-thru-hike-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=6507","title":{"rendered":"Enchantment Thru-Hike, Washington, August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After our fourth time, Linna and I agreed that this will be the last time we hike this grueling twenty mile thru hike in the beautiful Enchantments in one day. Like most one day thru-hikers we started at Colchuck trailhead and descended down to Snows Lake trailhead. This is truly a brutal trek with 4,500 feet gain and 6,500 feet descent on not so easy terrain. Our group of 9 friends started around 7:00 a.m. and made it back to the vehicles around 10:00 p.m.. I packed a cooler in the morning, so we had cold beers waiting for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just one of many crossings on top of the core of the enchantments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On top of Asgard Pass look back at the beautiful Colchuck Lake. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Linna Freeman resting after hiking up the brutal Asgard Pass. Dragontail Peak is keeping her company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Enchantments are filled with Goats. Some of the goats were still shedding their coats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Matt Kerby, our designated professional photographer. The photos are Matt’s handy work. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Happy and Tired Freeman. I was taking a break as I was heading up the very steep Asgard Pass. From the Colchuck Lake you ascend 2,000 feet in only 3\/4 of a mile to reach the pass….or the gateway to the beautiful Enchantments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The girls at Colchuck Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leprechaun Lake <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Linna Freeman leading the way through the core of the Enchantments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our fourth time, Linna and I agreed that this will be the last time we hike this grueling twenty mile thru hike in the beautiful Enchantments in one day. Like most one day thru-hikers we started at Colchuck trailhead … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[654,636,691,653,607,641,20,687],"class_list":["post-6507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-difficult-hikes","tag-aasgard-pass","tag-colchuck-lake","tag-enchantment-thru-hike","tag-enchantments","tag-linna-freeman-seattle","tag-matt-kerby","tag-rick-freeman","tag-wanderjunkie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jXSd-1GX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}