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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Of my Eight trips into the Chants Four were reservations and Four were lottery Forest service front door stops. Unfortunately they've changed the rules for getting a door permit.
"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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kbatku Questionable hiker
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 3330 | TRs | Pics Location: Yaquima |
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Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:08 pm
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contour5 Member
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 2962 | TRs | Pics
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Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:30 am
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They just make up new rules whenever they feel like it. I'd probably do the same thing if I were ever to wield total despotic power over our vast, shared natural resources.
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Just_Some_Hiker Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 691 | TRs | Pics Location: Snoqualmie, WA |
Quote: | Dear Customer,
We are sorry to inform you that you were not successful in securing a reservation in the ENCHANTMENT PERMIT AREA LOTTERY 2018. |
Another wasted $10.
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schifferj Member
Joined: 07 Mar 2015 Posts: 224 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
Just_Some_Hiker wrote: | Quote: | Dear Customer,
We are sorry to inform you that you were not successful in securing a reservation in the ENCHANTMENT PERMIT AREA LOTTERY 2018. |
Another wasted $10. |
I and all of my buddies got the same message. I'd be curious to see how many applications there were for this years lottery. We also got the same treatment for the Selway River, Snake River, and Smith River. Curious as to where the tens of thousands of dollars people spend on lottery permits go.
My alternative, The Beartooth Absaroka Wilderness over in Montana is still free. I'll be headed there this year. Alternatively, I may just "poach" the Enchantments.
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SlingShot Slingshot
Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 222 | TRs | Pics Location: Cascadia |
Quote: | We are sorry to inform you that you were not successful in securing a reservation in the ENCHANTMENT PERMIT AREA LOTTERY 2018. |
I have lost all faith with the enchantment permit system! I have applied every year! I have never "won". I know several people who have "won" permits each and every year, and they make it a annual family thing. There is no way this lottery system is random!
I have attempted to get a walk up permit several times for the core, always end up at eightmile.
My 2018 Motto... F the enchantments!
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InFlight coated in DEET
Joined: 20 May 2015 Posts: 847 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle area |
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Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:38 am
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Zero luck this year as well. I had requested Snow Lake on three different weeks. I was able to get an Eight Mile three years ago. 1 for 5 lotteries.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...” ― Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...” ― Henry David Thoreau
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Just_Some_Hiker Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 691 | TRs | Pics Location: Snoqualmie, WA |
SlingShot wrote: | I have lost all faith with the enchantment permit system! I have applied every year! I have never "won". I know several people who have "won" permits each and every year, and they make it a annual family thing. There is no way this lottery system is random! |
Every year you enter the lottery and don't win, you should get a code for the next year that will increase your chances. After, say, five years you should automatically get a permit for the zone of your choice. As it stands, you have people who have been waiting 5-20 years for a permit while some dude from Kansas who only just heard about the Enchantments from a magazine article just got a permit for his entire family.
The joke's on them, though, because instead of doing one big trip this year I'll do 2-3 day trips which will probably increase my overall "impact" on the area.
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1450 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
schifferj wrote: | Alternatively, I may just "poach" the Enchantments. |
My style!
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1450 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
SlingShot wrote: | F the enchantments! |
Yeah!
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yaki Member
Joined: 26 May 2010 Posts: 151 | TRs | Pics Location: The Other Side of the Mountains |
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Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:33 am
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I got July 25 Core Enchantment permit. Shocked and beyond EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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xrp Tactical Backpacker
Joined: 01 May 2012 Posts: 369 | TRs | Pics
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xrp
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Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:42 am
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yaki wrote: | I got July 25 Core Enchantment permit. Shocked and beyond EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Congrats! I came up empty as did a backpacking partner of mine.
We put in for late August/early September -- that is likely peak request time.
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Galadriel Member
Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 249 | TRs | Pics
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I agree, J-S-H. Got the usual "We are sorry" notification. Doesn't look like I'll ever get up there.
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JonnyQuest Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2013 Posts: 593 | TRs | Pics
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Guilty of not following current permit application process, but did they do away with the "day of" walk up lottery at the ranger station in Leavenworth? That used to work great, especially if you went mid-week.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Just found out a facebook friend that I went on a backpacking trip with once scored core zone permits for mid July.
A woman I was dating scored core zone permits for us years ago, and then a couple years after that got permits for Colchuck Lake. Some people have the Midas touch I guess.
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