Enchnatments, Enchantment Lakes, Colchuck Lake, Snow Lakes

We started at colchuck lake. I would highly recommend this route over snow lake. There is little bit of elevation gain to colchuck lake. You'll gain lot of elevation only at Aasgard pass (less than a mile) comparing to brutal elevation gain (for 18 miles) all the way up from snow lake route. We went up Aasgard pass at a slow pace and it took us three hours with couple breaks. I'm an intermediate hiker and not a very fast one.
Colchuck Lake: It is completely snow free, easy to find trail. There was one bridge crossing. Before crossing look for a sign on your right on a tree, you'll have to make left from main trail to go to Colchuck. If you miss this you'll end up at lake Stuart. The switchbacks start after the bridge. There are camping spots along the trail by the lake or you can continue going further app. 1.6 miles and find kinda beach area to camp. No major bug problem. We saw one mountain goat.
Aasgard pass: We followed the rock piles and it was just fine to go up the pass. Lots of scrambling but not bad. I would recommend hiking poles. There is one or two spots along the pass to filter water. This was the hardest part of our hike, but I was glad we got it all out of our way once.
Upper Enchantments: We camped near isolation lake. very minimum bugs and no snow on trail. It got little bit colder in the night. Lots of mountain goats. The views were spectacular.
Little Annapurna: We did a day hike to little Annapurna. It took us couple hours. Beautiful 360 (degree) views, complete view of upper enchantments and lower enchantments, Mt. Rainier, Adams, Baker, Dragontail peak, and Wenatchee. There is no clear marking of any trail going up this but we started hiking towards it and followed some rock piles.
Lower Enchantments: There are couple steep snow patches going down. We camped at lake Vivian. It was an easy hike with spectacular views of lakes and peaks. It was downhill and trail was easy to follow. Again, we just followed rock piles. There were lot of bugs.

Our last day we hiked all the way out. It was long day but easy. It was all downhill switchbacks. I'm so glad we didn't go up this route. We had a 1300 feet drop and 800 feet downhill switchbacks. We saw lot of people going up to snowlake and looked miserable.

There is one spot after lake Vivian where it got little tricky. There are few metal steps on a rock and hard to see the trail. We hiked along the rock and saw the trail going down to left. It is a steep drop and we hiked along the rock on right instead of using the metal steps, which looked dangerous.

There was no major fording of the river. All rivers/dam/lakes either had bridges or logs. The dam was easy to cross as the water level was really low.