"Erik Schulz was brave or foolish enough to invite me on an adventure in The Enchantments, given my penchant for long days and alpine finishes experienced first hand on our summit to Preacher Mountain. Erik has an e-bike and extolled the virtues of an e-bike for long approaches to climbs on forest service roads. Intrigued about the increased opportunity for more car-to-car (c2c) climbs vs. planned camps or unplanned bivys' (Big Snow, Lake Constance, The Brothers, and others), I quickly agreed to join him on this adventure while also increasing Erik's experience with alpine finishes. Our plan was to take a trip to The Enchantments, and after a night of pouring over many GPX tracks, we agreed on a loop - climb the Colchuck Glacier, bag Colchuck Peak, summit Dragontail via Pandora's Box, drop to climb the Witches Tower, and finish with a stroll to Little Annapurna, then descend to Colchuck Lake via Aasgard Pass. Simple enough! I was up for a record day for hours and altitude in an outing, given I had gained 11,700 feet and 19 miles on a day trip a little over a week ago. I rented an e-bike for this trip as I did not have sufficient time to research a purchase and did not want t..." — markhadland • May 3, 2021

"Snow almost to the lake on the west side. Take your ice axe from the col to the summit: somewhat steep snow still on that last part of the scramble. Glissade down from about 7500 feet." — mathiasricken • Jun 9, 2017

"After an unsuccessful trip the weekend before, I was determined to head back to camp at Colchuck Lake and make the summit of Colchuck Peak the next morning. Finally off my To-Do list!!! Crampons and ice axe were used all the way up till the top of the col. Beautiful 360 degree summit views. Clear enough to see Adams, Rainier, Glacier Peak and Baker. " — aimk13 • Jun 9, 2013

"Coming off a terrible near three-week streak of horrifyingly strenuous summit failures, this was finally an epic day to summit one of my favorite mountains in one of my favorite areas. Perfect weather - sunny, dry. Powered up and down in 9.5 hrs, hobbling with horrific blisters, knee pain, and general muscle fatigue, later ran out of water 2 mi from the car - glissade all the way from the top of the col back to the lake in 5 mins. Soft snow, no crampons, but incredibly windy - don't get blown off. Sweeping views of Argonaut and Stuart, and chipmunks galore. Trail and summit block are snow-free, lake is mostly melted out. A painfully fun day topped off with ice cream :) I think it took us about 10 hrs last year.." — diana • Jun 17, 2012

"Awesome awesome day. Brisk pace to base of the glacier, crampons and ice axes up to the saddle, scrambled around the south side of Colchuck to summit. Great up close view of Mt Stuart and Argonaut." — diana • Jul 1, 2011