From the top we could see the forest fire, comfortably a few miles to the south. We could make out a chopper dropping water on a hot spot. There was quite a bit less smoke today than there had been on the previous day.

Views of Lake Chelan are spectacular. We could look to the east to the Chelan Summit where we had been the previous summer. And to the west we could see rows and rows of ridges making up the Cascades, with Glacier Peak most prominent among the many peaks. I pointed out Mt. Maude and Seven Fingered Jack, which we had camped near on a trip the previous August.