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 ...

The Colorado Mountain Club Guidebook ... Holy Cross Wilderness Area. A trait of wilderness areas is that they are roadless, so another bonus is a paved road right to the Timberline Lake Trailhead.

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 ...

This year, 40,032 people entered the advanced lottery for overnight permits to hike the dreamy Enchantments in Washington’s Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Only 2,558 were awarded, amounting to a 6% ...

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 ...