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For a realy, realy good hike try the Enchantment Lakes. The trailheads are near Leavenworth and it is in the Stewart mountain range. I've taken that trail right up to the base of Mt. Stewart. At the base of Mt. Stewart is a beutiful lake. The lake is formed from galcier runoff from the mountain which sort of juts out of the ground like a giant thumb right there. And regardless of what your father tells you... the water in the lake is NOT warm (that bastard).
This is a truely breathtaking hike and as this site says "If you only get one backpacking trip per year, one year soon you should go to the Enchantment Lakes area of the north Cascade Mountains in Washington."
It's true, I've done the trip a couple times but only done the loop (from Eightmile to Snow Creek) once but have been on various parts of the trail several times (I grew up in Yakima and we spent a lot of time in the eastern part of the state). The side trip up to the base of Mt. Stewart is a great hike too.
Don't cary beer, there is a lot of elevation change on this trip, a lot. This would be purely a hard alcahol trip for you alcahol drinkers.
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I'll definitely give it a try. I was camping at Icicle Creek about two months ago and it was some pretty spectacular scenery. On the way back I decided to cross the mountains on forest service logging roads instead of going down through Wenatchee.
Being by myself I was a bit nervous, but everything turned out okay.