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Get Out and Go
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Joined: 13 Nov 2004
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Location: Leavenworth |
Past few weekends, I've been widening the net around home to check out conditions. This one is always a good worker, so I opted for the Deuter 42 and loaded it with a couple of full Nalgenes for some weight. I have never embraced the "new" Chatter Creek trailhead. While the old one had limited parking, the trail never dilly-dallied around. Anyway, it's a nice spring ramble, and after the first crossing of Chatter Creek, you pick up the original trail, which now begins to climb and offers views.
 8-Mile, Jack Peak and Trout Creek Valley Harding Makes an Appearance Typical Chatter Creek Trail   The trail is in great shape...no blowdowns or brush and snow-free until just before the creek crossing at the lower end of the basin. I punched through at a couple spots in the boulder field, where I had my lunch and enjoyed the views.
Lower End of Chatter Creek Basin Possible Creek Crossing "Ida" gone up that gully! Cashmere Complex and Dr. Creek Basin Trout Creek Valley, 8-Mile, Jack Peak Lunch Rock Boot Jack Van Epps area (?) with Harding on the right 
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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HitTheTrail
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Joined: 30 Oct 2007
Posts: 5455 | TRs | Pics
Location: 509 |
Thanks for the beta. Nice photos. Good ol Chatter Ck. I have had a love-hate relationship with that trail since the 1970's. Not to mention my spooky experience in the upper basin last Labor Day. But...In my opinion it is the best route into the Lady Lakes area. The Frosty pass route definitely needs some work now days. I still need to do Snowgrass Mt. and Grace Lakes.
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wildernessed
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Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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Location: Wenatchee |
I could do the Ida Lake quick route, I haven't been in there in a few years.
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MLHSN
What goes here?????
Joined: 09 Sep 2007
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Location: Wenatchee |
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MLHSN
What goes here?????
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| wildernessed wrote: | | I could do the Ida Lake quick route, I haven't been in there in a few years. |
I'd be game for Ida.
Grace Lakes has been on my list for a while also.
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Get Out and Go
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Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 2128 | TRs | Pics
Location: Leavenworth |
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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Backpacker Joe
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
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Location: Cle Elum |
I was up at Augusta last July. I'd like to get to Ida this year, and both Grace lakes have been on my list for years as well.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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