Both hikes offered plenty of good eats around the campfire. Here in the upper reaches of Hoodoo Basin, we're camped where stands of pine start to give way to open alpine meadow. Rocky ridges stretch skyward all around. A cold, clear stream gurgles nearby. Around the campfire on this last full afternoon of our Wenatchee World Trail Hike, we're filling cups from the charred coffeepot and reminiscing about the week just past.
Someone mentions the horses.
Oh, the views. That amusing incident involving Tom's and Nicki's incongruously swapped hats. Descending the aptly named Angels Staircase. Several references are to the great food. Thirteen hikers, few of whom knew each other at the start, joined Cascade Corrals' Cragg Courtney, Campbell, wranglers Jake Courtney and Tom Maynard, and 13 horses for this trip through the Sawtooth Range east of Lake Chelan in early July.