Mission Ridge Shuffle
Earlier in the year, I'm not sure exactly when, Katie worked out with some friends of ours how we'd each take a turn watching one another's kiddos for a weekend. We had bookmarked climbing Cashmere Mountain for its unique vantage looking into the Enchantments and across the Stuart Range. Despite it being visible from all around the Wenatchee Valley and the trips we've done over the years, we've never climbed it. However, at some point we realized to camp at the lake beneath the summit required an Enchantments permit. Not the core, but still a zone that was already booked. The complexities of a last-minute overnight permit, including having to drive to Leavenworth the day before to be within a 1-mile radius geofence of the ranger station, then waiting to find out if we won the lottery, then going into said ranger station to pick up the permit, all the day before, left us looking for other options. The one stipulation was it needed to be something that was logistica...
