Goat Rocks
 

This has nothing to do with goat testicles.

My birthday was last Friday, and my tradition is to awaken on a mountain somewhere. This year the "somewhere" was Goat Rocks Wilderness. Reputedly a bazillion year-old collapsed volcano, it is today a semi-circle of peaks and ridges. Knife-edge ridges and gnarly peaks. I stood on top of Old Snowy (7930 feet!). I saw a bee, and a lady bug there. Go figure. It's at least a thousand feet from the nearest sprig of vegetation. Well above the tree line.

Goat Lake is an interesting geological formation. A lake with a waterfall flowing out of it. How many of those have you guys seen? From Old Snowy a number of renowned Cascade Range landmarks can be seen (Four Brothers, Mount Stuart, etc) but the most striking are, of course, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and of course.....Mount Rainier.

Oh.....and I quit smoking.

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Here is Mount Adams.

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And here is a special shot I took just for you guys.

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You're right about the goats. Not so much the testicles. :)

Happy belated B-day Supe...
I wish you many more, and the strength to go climbing into those beautiful mountains for yrs to come.
Thanks for the pic's..except that last one..:eek:

rest easy....as some members will treasure that last photo :D

Rika

Supe,

You look OK for 29 ! Well, at least the front side does ;)

Very cool, Supe.

The pictures explain quite a bit...I have some friends at NORAD who scrambled some F-16s because some satellites picked up a curious white glow from Goat Mountain.:cool:

Where's Z-man when we actually "need" a picture removed ;)

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:DHappy b-day Supe.

Z-MAN leaves the pics he likes...he is very quick to delete girlie pics tho! :p:D

Happy birthday Superman. Great tradition you have going on. LOL! That last pic....too funny. :D

Happy Belated B-Day!

You're not wearing a thong, are you?

Happy birthday Supe..... but d@mn, that last picture is going to give me nightmares :D

Goat Rocks makes me mad! :mad:



KT

The mountains I will remember, the moon...I wish I could forget!

Happy B Day supes

God save us from those two round mounds; butt, its nice to see some great nountains.

Goat Rocks is great. Wm. O. Douglas's favorite wilderness.

Luckily, I have some memories of it that I hope will survive your pic.

Fantastic pic's - How far to hike to get up there?

I've climbed Adams. Its not that hard to climb. It has a path that you can go all the way to the top. From our car we walked in till we got to the 9K level, camped, went to the summit the next day, and back down, spent the night, and then the next day down off the mountain.

I really hope this does not become the new 'self portrait' trend here... :D


KT

Not bad. Not bad at all! SmileWavy

angela (female sexist pig)