What's up guys? It's Zac and Ine from World Wild Hearts.
Today we're in Leavenworth just relaxing our legs
because tomorrow it's going to be a full day
of hiking The Enchantments Trail.
Yeah and The Enchantments Trail is like a really
challenging hike. It is 30 kilometers, or 22 miles long.
And so it's going to be very challenging. We're going
to have two cars. One parked at the Colchuck Lake trailhead
where we will start and one at Snow Lakes trailhead
where we will finish.
So yeah in this video we're going to give you the
route overview as well as all the beautiful views
along the way so enjoy the video and lets see what we got!
It's 6am here on The Enchantments Hike.
We just parked at the parking lot. It's actually pretty good
light already. And, uh, a couple things you need to do
before you start going on the trail. Make sure you have your
National Forest Pass... Recreation Pass which is like 5 bucks.
We got ours from the 76 gas station in Leavenworth.
And you have to fill out your backcountry day pass
just so they know you're out there in case anything happens.
So let's see what the trail looks like.
So this is a key junction in the trail.
You want to make sure you go left towards Colchuck Lake
and not towards Stuart.
So we made it to Colchuck Lake.
It took us about 2 hours to get here.
And it's pretty early still. It's like 8:30 in the morning right now.
The lake is gorgeous. Like, the color is amazing
and the sun is just coming through the mountains
so yeah it's a good start of the day!
So we're about to climb up to the top of Aasgard Pass.
We have Colchuck behind us and you can see how steep
this pass us. Uh, lots of boulders to climb
but make sure you just follow the cairns the whole way
because that will help kind of guide you up to the top of this thing.
So we made it to the top of Aasgard pass.
It took us about 2 hours and 15 minutes to get to the top
and it was really hard but, uh, not too technical.
It just took a long time. And we never felt scared of like
falling or anything. So nothing to worry about, just take
your time. And now at the top of the pass
we've got like 5 lakes already in the distance.
So here's a good spot to, you know, eat your lunch, fill up
your water and recuperate for the core
which should be pretty exciting.
So as you can see there's many goats here on the trail
Like, especially in the core enchantments area.
Like we've seen at least already 6 or 7.
So you have to watch out for those because
they can be aggressive.
We're really in the heart of The Enchantments core right now!
Beautiful lakes behind us... rivers, lakes around...
and tons of goats as well.
Crazy mountain peaks... this is the best hike in Washington.
We're 8.5 hours in now and we are at Snow Creek
It's gorgeous out here. Like, as you can see there's
just water flowing everywhere.
Feels nice!
So the way down to Snow Lakes is a little bit steep.
You have to watch your step and there's one spot
where you have to make sure you stay to the left.
So basically you just wrap around Vivian Lake.
You're going to cross a waterfall.
And then stay all the way to the left down the valley.
Otherwise if you go to the right you might find
some rock climbing at the end.
This is one of the last dangerous spots of the day.
It's a little man-made damn on the edge of
Upper Snow Lake and regular Snow Lake so
just be careful and cross it with care.
Alright guys, we are just about to finish
The Enchantments day hike. It is 9:45pm
So this hike is going to take us about 15 hours...
a little over that... so it was extreme we have to say.
Like, that was the hardest day hike we've ever done
in our lives but it was also super rewarding.
Probably one of the prettiest day hikes we've ever done
so if you want to put in a lot of effort, you're going
to get a lot of reward on this one.
So we also wanted to say thanks to our friends Taylor
and Shauna for doing the hike with us
and for being the second shuttle to the
Snow Lake parking lot. And yeah if you haven't subscribed
to our channel yet, make sure you do.
We have a lot of other hiking videos in the US.
And we also have a free giveaway in the download section.
And our friend Taylor is actually a videographer as well.
So we're going to put his link to his website
in the description below if you want to check that out.
So yeah, see you on the next hiking video.
Thanks for watching!