Goat Mountain — Sunday, May. 22, 2022

Road is in ok shape, but as the previous report mentioned there’s some debris which is better navigated with a higher clearance vehicle. Some blowdowns to traverse, only a few that are super annoying! Snowline still starts after about 2 miles and route finding is important as the summer trail quickly vanishes underneath. We opted to stop before the last half mile push before the summit today, as snow conditions were deteriorating given that part of the trail is on the south side and the sun was giving it some pretty intense heat today. Some avy debris and presence of roller balls from our steps made us wary of taking any risks today, so we called it good a bit early. Snowshoes are still handy with all the slushy snow, but even those were sinking in good on the way down. It’ll be awhile yet before this trail is more safely accessible!