Domkey Water Incident Analysis

I knew this was a bad idea from the start. My dad was envious of finding a newer trail to the source of the falls, Domkey Lake. the real trail to the lake was about 2 miles further up Lake Chelan at an old mining village named Lucerne, but oh no, we have to "take the shortcut" we followed a game trail for about 50 yards then it just kind of stopped. We pushed on though,the kids like my friend Garrett and I thought that this was not going to end well, but we bush wacked for about a mile and came upon the ridge of a hill where a previous fire had roared through and torched almost all of the trees. We pushed most of the burnt trees down the hill to get a better look about where were in all this dense brush.
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