Ice Creek - Ice Lakes, Leroy Creek High Route & Spider Meadow and Phelps Basin — Friday, Aug. 27, 2010

Central Cascades > Entiat Mountains/Lake Chelan

We opted to head to ice lakes via the spider meadow, leroy creek route as i read that it was more difficult than the Entiat route and shaved something like 7-9 miles off the trail . this was step for step the most difficult hike i did in 2010. hiking up phelps creek is a breeze, take a right at leroy creek and strait up. there is a trail most of the time all the way up to leroy basin. but we blazed a few of our own after that. the hardest time we had was the boulder fields and scrambles up to the saddle to ice lakes. it was just us and two other hikers that came via entiat and camped at lower lake. the area is beautiful high country. we hiked down the carne mountain, old Gib trail path making a loop back to the car. from ice lakes down to the valley floor we were lost. we followed our map as best we could hiking the ridge and then down the scurry to the trees. we landed right back on top of the trail. saw lots of marmot and deer, 1 goat far off.