A beautiful day… a hard day but well worth the effort. We entered Goat Rocks Wilderness in the morning amidst Pine Trees and slowly climbed up above the tree line to phenomenal views of Mount Rainier, Mount Adam’s and the surrounding landscape. We climbed up 6,000 feet and climbed down another 6,000.

Mackenzie and I hiked with Squirrel, Side Quest, Dice, and Candy Crush for most of the day and enjoyed a steady but enjoyable pace through the amazing views. We sprinted through much of the Sierra and learned our lesson to take our time through such majestic landscape.

Getting to lunch, Bastien, Berry, and I glaciaded down a two hundred yard long patch of snow to bypass a horsh shoe loop down to our water source racing Mackenzie and Jordan to the spot. Afterwards, we grabbed lunch and cooled off a bit. As we got up to leave from lunch, the clouds chased us down the mountain before enveloping us once below the tree line. We then climbed back up to a ridge line with beautiful expansive views of Shoe Lake and the clouds that hung below us.

It was then a slow descent into camp where we stopped at Ginnette Lake to sleep for the night. We’re pitching our tent in the clouds so we’ll see how wet we get. We’re just two miles uphill from White Pass where we’ll grab our resupply and keep trucking north.

Happy Trails…