Photo by Chester Marler, late October, 2008. Near Ida Lake.
This post is attempting to chronicle where you’ll find fabulous fall colors—and to show some of the fabulous colors folks are finding with photos. Add a comment to the end of this post (or email us we’ll paste into the report) telling where the colors are just about to go off, where the colors are perfect right now, and where the colors have gone a bit south of perfect….or should that be a bit north of perfect?
Photo by Chester Marler. November 1 The last colors of fall? Weekend wind blew away these colors.
Photos by Lisa Robinson. Above: Wenatchee River side channel near Monitor. Below: Root and leaves along the banks of the Wenatchee.
Photo by Marc Dilley near the base of the Tumwater Canyon.
Photo 2 by Marc Dilley near the base of the Tumwater Canyon.
Photo: October 19: Larch with Mt. Stuart behind from the Ingalls/Esmeralda Pass area. Photo by Phil Fenner. More larch photos at Phil's album.
Photo above Tumwater Canyon, below Clara Lake area, both by Andy Dappen
October 18. (above) Tumwater Canyon continued to be gorgeous over the weekend. In a some places the color looked a bit washed out -- elsewhere it was brilliant.
October 18. (above) Tumwater Canyon continued to be gorgeous over the weekend. In a some places the color looked a bit washed out -- elsewhere it was brilliant.
October 12 (above). View from Castle Rock down on the Wenatchee River by Shane Wilder.
October 12 (below): Castle Rock environs in Tumwater Canyon.
October 12. Great colors in Tumwater Canyon still--yellow, golds, oranges, reds. The hike up Castle Rock is a good short one that has nice vegetation and interesting vantage points for photography.
October 12. Paul Kelly hiked through the Enchantments on Sunday and reported the Aasgard Pass area was very icy. "...everything was solid ice from Colchuck up. It may be different now with the weather having been nicer, but beware. With light hikers, it was tricky especially the short, scramble areas near the top. The rivulets were all filled with solid water ice. We found the needles on the larch were frozen...We saw color on the lower parts of Aasgard, the upper had the trees blown free. The lower Enchantments on down were beautiful but some of the needles were already on the ground. Strange as reports from just the prior weekend stated they were barely turning.
October 10. Photo to the side and the two below are by Peter Valaas on Wednesday from Larch Lakes up the Entiat. Peter wrote, "About six inches of new snow and very beautiful."
October 8. Colors along our local rivers and in the mountains are turning shades of spectacular right now. Tumwater Canyon has been worth a visit to photograph – especially on gray days when the red and golds really pop. Here are some pictures taken last weekend in the Tumwater.
Photo by Wenatchee Outdoors. Tumwater Canyon.
Photo by Brenda Reid. Tumwater Canyon
Photo by Wenatchee Outdoors. Tumwater Canyon.
Photo by Wenatchee Outdoors. Tumwater Canyon.
Photo: Brenda Reid. Tumwater Canyon.
Get out and enjoy it…and, if you get good photos, send us a few to post.