Remember when the Enchantments permit lottery was just a postcard?
Back in 2012, you mailed a postcard to the ranger station in Leavenworth with your dates. I got a spot my first try. Now the online system gets over 20,000 applications for maybe 700 core zone permits. The change happened around 2015 when they went digital. It's way more fair, but it feels like winning the actual lottery now. Miss the simple hope of checking your mailbox. Anyone else get in under the old system and never win the new one?