Goat Lake — Sunday, Sep. 2, 2018

We slept just off the forest service road the night before in a decent spot and there seemed to be more available on a busy labor day weekend. We parked at the snowgrass parking lot and did the loop clockwise, starting with the connector. We took the slight detour to the old lookout site and thought it was worth the extra half mile or so. We started hitting crowds below Jordan Basin and had steady company on the trail the rest of the day but not too bad. We dropped our packs at the shoulder above the basin and walked up to Hawkeye Point before eating a late lunch back on the shoulder. It was easy going past the lake all the way to our camp near snowgrass flats and we figured we put in 10.5 miles that day. We made it out to the car in about two hours the next morning. It was one of the busiest trails I've been on but the volcano views made up for it and there seemed to be more campsites per mile than I've ever seen.