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John Morrow
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This makes a fun loop hike of around 12 miles that has lots to offer: highpoints, lookout site views, larches, big river valley, fine trails, goats, exercise!
The loop: Goat Peak Trail to American Ridge Trail and over Goat Peak 6473'. Along American Ridge with a sidetrip to the Pt. 6197' highpoint. Then down Pleasant Valley Lake Trail. Return via the Pleasant Valley (xc ski) Trail along the American River back to the trailhead.
The Goat Peak Trailhead is right on Hwy 410 and climbs close to 4 miles to the Goat Peak Lookout on some steep but wonderfully aesthetic trail with great views expanding.
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Hikingqueen
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Are they closing chinook pass soon? Beautiful photos!
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Magellan
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 Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:32 pm |
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Glad it's been nice (enough) on your days off! 
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LadyÆsa
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Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:26 pm |
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Gorgeous photos! Wonderful trip!
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Hiker Mama
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Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:48 pm |
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That was a great little loop. Great views for the Southern Cascades. Did it Monday with nice relatively warm sunshine. If it was me, having done the loop, I'd probably just do the Goat Mountain trail up and down next time. Although, the last two miles going back to the car along the river take you through what has to be a nearly unique east side Western Larch/Fir/Engleman spruce forest with trees of all species to 4' in diameter. It's worth doing the loop at least once for travel through that forest.
Thanks for the suggestion. Folks we ran into on the hike said that the Goat Creek trail was also very nice and perhaps the easiest on the mountain, though more forested than from the American River side.
The Green Trails Bumping Lake Quad was very adequate for all the options. This doesn't appear to be a heavily used area and I would think it best in the fall after the Lyall's larch show or maybe in early summer. I'd bet it is pretty floral near Goat Peak.
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pimaCanyon
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cool! All those years living in WA and did not know we had Western Larch.
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Redwic
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Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:55 pm |
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Nice photos!
Also... Thanks for time-traveling back from the future year of 2102 to show us! 
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60 pounds lighter but not 60 points brighter.
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Bedivere
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Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:40 pm |
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Love that area - go car camping there a couple times a year and have attempted to hike the Goat Peak trail to the top a couple times in mid July but been thwarted by snow both times a few hundred feet below the summit.
Very scenic with the larches in full color like that. Didn't realize the Western's held their color this late in the year.
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John Morrow
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Sorry folks, don't mean to appear to self promote but I thought I'd bump this up for late fall hiking ideas. I think western larches will still hold their needles for another week or so and there are plenty of them on American and Nelson Ridges as long as Chinook Pass stays open!
John
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
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I wonder if there will be any weather windows next week. This weekend's taken up with crappy weather and Suiattle festivities.
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b00
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b00
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Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:02 pm |
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| John Morrow wrote: | | Sorry folks, don't mean to appear to self promote but I thought I'd bump this up for late fall hiking ideas. |
great idea! please self promote more often
:>)
ps - we did goat pk, unfortunately not in the fall, so we missed the larches :<( we did however add a yakima peak as bonus on the way home. yakima is peak a short trip and proved to be a perfect spot to watch the sunset from :>)
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