[canyonwren]

I've been completely wowed by all the great scrambling and climbing people have done and am totally inspired to get a helmet, some climbing partners, and eventually do start peak-bagging myself. In the meantime, here's a humble hiking TR. A friend of mine had never been hiking before and asked if I would take her. I said sure and told her to make sure she had adequate footwear, raingear and left the cotton at home. She did pretty well, although the raingear turned out to be a Hefty garbage bag. I'd brought along some extra clothes and food as a precaution, but not any extra raingear, so it had to do. We drove out to the Ingalls Lake trailhead and headed up. She did great, until we hit the part of the trail where the edge of the trail was also the start of the cliff. See, I keep thinking I have a fear of heights and therefore understand other people when they say they have a fear of heights. I'd just done this a few weeks ago, when I blithely told my buddy that Ozette was "flat as a pancake," completely forgetting about the fun little cliff climb with ropes, if the tide is in. "Flat as a pancake," she muttered at the time. (We have since established that my fear of heights has a baseline of jumping out of airplanes or bungi jumping off a bridge, which can't really be considered a fear of heights per se.) So, this friend almost balked, but I talked her through it. She leaned into the cliff and stayed really, really close to me. Poor thing. But still! For a first hike, she ended up with absolutely gorgeous vistas and three mountain goats! Not everyone sees a mountain goat on their very first hike. My friend declined to either traverse through the snow, once we reached the pass, or scramble up the peak (probably a good thing). So, we ate our lunch and made eyes at the baby goat. Had a pretty good hike down, although my friend's slightly substandard shoes helped teach her about glissading when we crossed the snow patches. She's inspired to buy some proper boots, good raingear and come along for some more, so I must have done something right!

Fern

Polyhex and her Hefty bag!

Snowy June day

Mountain goat

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Not sure which peak this is...Stuart? Looking out from the pass below Ingalls Peak.

Kid on rock

Goat and kid 1

Right before the baby goat takes a leap!

This may seem like a backdrop, but it's not.

Mt Stuart

[pochac]

Nice TR! Looks like you saw the same goat and kid Payton and I saw back in October.

[wbs]

Nice capture on goat(s) pic #7 Typical kid goat "hey ma hey ma look were getting out picture taken " Mama reply "stop staring" Nice trail that is, good diversity of geology and forest. ML and I were up there back Memorial Day. How are the flowers coming along on the lower trail? PS - you last pic is Stuart, and #5 I think is actually Ingalls Pk from that angle appears looking up via Headlight Basin (?).

[canyonwren]