Three glorious days on the Alpine Lakes High Route (Aug 2628). Washington's Alpine Lake Wilderness covers a swatch of rugged terrain in the southern section of the North Cascades. The region is most famous for the Enchantments, but the Alpine Lakes High Route covers an entirely different, almostasepic section to the west of the Cascade divide. Huge glacial lakes, rugged peaks, alpine meadows, granite wandering, bushwhacking, pristine trout, and beautiful, beautiful swimming... the Alpine Lakes High Route has got it all.

Order of swimming holes and lakes: Middle Copper Falls, Malachite Lake, Copper Lake, Little Big Heart Lake, Big Heart Lake, Tourmaline Tarn, Little Chetwoot Lake, Chetwoot Lake, Iron Cap Lake, North Tank Lakes, South Tank Lakes, Foehn Lake, Emerald Lake, Jade Lake, unNamed tributary.