Enchantment Lakes – Aasgar Pass – Colchuck Lake

By bufo_raddei, 23/06/2015 15:24

First time I visited Enchantment Lakes last fall, but it was only one day trip. And I didn’t see my beloved snow goats. So, I wanted to do this trip again, but in two days to see everything in details. How I told before, without problems with permit lottery you can spent night on lake only before June 15 and after October 15. We decided to do this on last free weekend, June 13-14.
Because we prefer loop trails, we decided to go up to Enchantment Lakes via Snow Lake, cross Aasgar Pass, and come down via Colchuck Lake. We were on Clochuck Lake last year, so only unknown part was Aasgas Pass.
Saturday morning we started our way up.

First snow goats we met just on Nada Lake, it is very low altitude for them. There were she-goat with little goatling and goatling-teenager.

Goats cast the coat now and look a little unpleasant. You can see here how they look like in the fall.

Goats walked on the lake bank and ate horsetail.

We continued our way to Snow lake.
Nada Lake from the up:

Bush with strange flowers:

Another view of Nada Lake:

Granites:

First thing that we met on Snow Lake was another goat:

It is much more water in Snow Lake now:

As soon as we cane to far end of Snow Lake sun was replaced by hail and rain. Although our original plan was to spend night on Enchantment Lakes, we decided to hide fro weather under thick spruces on Snow Lake.

In the morning sun was back and we went up.