Beautiful day up to Vanson Peak via Goat Creek Trail. Weather was perfect and wasn't until the mid afternoon that I ran into another soul on the trail.
Trail was generally pretty clear, and brushed back well enough. A couple of spots of some serious blowdown, but only in short stretches and navigable over.
Went into this hike "cold"; had it on my list but no memory of why...does not disappoint! Waterfalls everywhere, just stunning! Took a brief side-quest along the Tumwater Mtn Trail to catch a few more falls which was fun (that trail's in need of some TLC...some spots are approaching abandoned).
Road to the trailhead from FS 27 is very passible, but high-clearance would be advised. Put my pickup in 4H and really only felt I needed it once.
Definitely would recommend and will be back to explore some more! Did see a couple of families along the very start of the trail, but once you get a mile or two in it is a pretty steady climb up to the Vanson Peak trail intersection. Not steep, just constant, bordering on unrelenting at times. :)
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