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Kaitlin Sommerfeld

7/28/2025 5:35 PM

Hi friends,

A group of Chemeketans were preparing to climb Glacier Peak, and accidentally ended up in the Goat Rocks Wilderness instead. 😊 A report of the outing is attached, and you can access our shared Google Photos album here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CLRaGLf6CcpPU3c86

Thanks to our leaders, Michael Gurley and Mason Smith, for a quick pivot and a great adventure!

Cheers,
Kaitlin

Mad Marmot

7/29/2025 11:39 AM

Great work in accommodating on the fly. The Goat Rocks are often dryer and more welcoming when the weather goes into the dumper farther north; the Teanaway area (https://www.summitpost.org/the-teanaway/461719) off I-90 just north of Cle Elum is similar and offers lots of scrambling opportunities with great views into the Stuart range.

Plaudits to Michael for finding a good water source. The upper elevations above Snowgrass Flats will dry out as the year progresses and, when we'd camped in that area in Oct, 2012, we found a spring hidden in a copse of trees just south of the PCT. Though you do have to deal with talus/scree, the Goat Rocks offer mellow scrambling in an exquisite area and you really caught the wildflowers near their prime. The question lingers however . . . . where are the goats?!? I didn't see any in the pics. They're invariably on the slopes southeast of Ives.

Old Snowy to Ives (L to R) from Hawkeye Point

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