Mileage: 16 miles RT
Elevation Gain/Highest: 1965ft/6365ft
Map: Green Trails Enchantments No. 209s
Favorite Eats After Hike: Gustav’s, Yodelin’s Broth Company, South, Dan’s Food Market, or just Pack A Cooler. You can learn more about these places in my Must Hike Must Eat Eating Out Guide.
Find out current conditions and as always, practice Leave No Trace. Pretty please.
My Hike:
11/15/2015
We headed out to find some snow today and were rewarded. The trail was wet, flat and muddy most of the way to Lake Stuart and a wet soppy marsh between the lake and the horseshoe nailed on the tree. Those famous downed trees are still there, only covered in snow and ice now. If there was a trail heading up to Horseshoe Lake, it’s anyone’s guess now that it is snow covered most of the way up.
My advice: follow the lake’s outflow stream up and down. We did not take the same route up as we did down, with a little help from GPS. The snow was about knee deep around the lake, the top layer frozen with the temps being in the mid 20s. Beautiful, though!
Directions: Drive Hwy 2 to Leavenworth and right onto Icicle Creek Road at MP 99. Turn left after 8.5 miles onto Eightmile Road, and continue on this dirt road for 3.8 miles to a large parking lot and the TH. The trail becomes washboarded as the season progresses, so high clearance vehicles are recommended. A toilet is available at the trailhead.
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