A year or so after we moved to Portland from New York my wife's coworker told her about the Enchantments. He described an otherworldly place marked by a dozen high alpine crystal blue lakes and jagged granite peaks. A place not easily accessible and to see it would test one physically and mentally. I did a quick Google search for the Enchantments after he described this majestic place and I was blown away that such a magnificent place could exist - let alone within a few hundred miles of Portland.