Crystal Peak Was A Great Second Choice

Saturday we headed off to hike Norse Peak with a loop that took Trail 1161 through Goat Lake. We arrived at the trailhead to find signage that said the Goat Lake trail was "obliterated" by a slide and was impassable. We made a quick decision to head to Crystal Peak Trail which is just over 8 miles away since it was a beautiful day and we had yet to see the view from there in our 3 previous hikes there.

So we headed up the very well maintained Crystal Peak Trail and were very surprised to see a ton of perfectly ripe huckleberries. That slowed our pace quite a bit since we were all eating our way up the trail.

 

We finally got back to hiking - mostly because as we got higher the berries went away, but the view got outstanding.

 

 

We decided the right thing to do was to pick some berries to take home on the way down so we had a snack and a little break at the top. Garry noticed something a little too white over on a steep slope a peak away from us so I zoomed in as far as I could and took a couple of shots and sure enough it was a mountain goat.

 

 

 

We took the pictures you get to take when you haul your butt up a mountain and headed down to get some berries. By the time we were done picking we were the purple finger and tongue gang, but we had some great berries and a good bit of exercise as well.

 

 

Be very well and more soon...