With more than 600 miles of trails and more than 700 lakes and ponds, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is an embarrassment of riches for Northwest hikers. Writing a guide for the area is no small task. But ...

ALPINE LAKES WILDERNESS — My lungs and legs were burning ... “Washington’s Central Cascades Fishing Guide.” Many of the state’s high lakes — defined by WDFW as lakes that lie above ...

As its name suggests, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a land of vast alpine lakes, left over from glaciers that once covered the area. The wilderness area is home to more than 700 mountain lakes ...

Dan Evans, who brought a coffee-table book of landscapes from the alpine lakes. Evans’ meeting ... but left “wilderness character” as its guide, Cole said. There are two main theories ...

That’s the name of an over-the-top spectacular region within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the Cascade Mountain Range, located about 70 miles east of Seattle. “It’s so beautiful everywhere ...

Over the years I've explored this land of a few hundred lakes and ponds, which is northeast of Detroit and borders the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The area is ...

“Desolation Wilderness has one of the highest concentrations of alpine lakes,” Engerbretson ... When asked for their favorite lake, guides from the Appalachian Mountain Club picked this ...

Enchantment Basin: It's so difficult to reach, but so incredibly beautiful. The Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, with Enchantment Basin at its heart, high above Leavenworth has an overnight permit ...

Clocking in at 414,161 acres, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness—spread across two national forests and occupying that huge green void between U.S. Highway 2 and Interstate 90—is a backpacker’s mecca. Upward ...

SEATTLE — Seven spectacular high-country lakes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness for decades have helped irrigate hundreds of acres of pear, apple and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley and ...

It took seven years and four tries and wasn’t pretty at the end. But Congress on Friday passed the Alpine Lakes Wilderness expansion, giving the toughest federal protection to 22,000 acres of ...