Enchantment larch fever, and nothing was going to stop us. Not even icy boulders, big slippery icy boulders, the size of Mini Coopers. (More on those in a moment.) ...

Part of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area, the Enchantments are about 15 miles southwest of Leavenworth, Wash. Rare among Cascade basins, ... sparse colorful larches and abundant wildlife.

Though the Enchantments Traverse Trail is arguably the best-known larch hike in Washington, its formidable length and highly technical terrain may turn off many potential hikers.

All Access + The Oregonian online newspaper – Start today for $1. A very enchanting place above Leavenworth. Published: Sep. 13, 2007, 11:55 a.m. Sep. 13, 2007, 11: ...

The Enchantments are famous for the alpine larch, one of the few coniferous trees that changes color in fall and loses its needles. "It's just breathtaking," says Pam Brulotte of Leavenworth, ...

The larches begin just above 5,500 foot-high Colchuck Lake, a renowned destination but also takeoff point for steep scramble/hike up to 7,780-foot Aasgard Pass and the Enchantment Lakes.

It's the season of the golden larch in the North Cascades. This unusual deciduous conifer — what looks like needles are actually small ...

The western larch grow from 1,600 to 7,000 feet, and the alpine larch can be found above 5,200 feet in the north Cascades and above 6,000 feet a bit to the south.

The Enchantments. The storybook name says it all. As soon as I heard there was a destination bearing such an epithet, I knew I had to go there. Me and everyone else. Because it’s so wildly ...

Yellow larches speckled the mountainsides. Wildfire smoke obscured views of the Cascades in the distance. About 10 miles in, the friends got off-route from the trail near Lake Viviane.

At first, the broad strap of shadow on the shoreline opposite bothered Adam. He had hiked to the Enchantments, an area of lakes and tarns in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington, USA, and had set ...