Tieton Meadows — Saturday, Jun. 22, 2002

South Cascades > Goat Rocks

#1128 Tieton Meadows goat rocks Follow trail #1118 at the end of fr 1207 for about 5 min. then walk around the fallen tree to follow #1128 to the river where the water is high and logs used to cross are washed away. Just follow the river downstream to a fallen cedar easy to cross (1/2 mile or less) then find the trail on the east side of the N fork Tieton. Go up river from there, down river takes you to a log jam with a bridge nailed into it and then a campground that looks like you can drive right to. maybe start your hike there if you can find it by car. Anyway, go up river until you run into a busy creek bed and the trail seems to fade away, thats because the trail starts up the mountain. the first 5 switchbacks are real steep, then it gets easier, 17 in all then you're at about 5000' with patches of snow with bigger patches of mosquitos. I jogged the trail about 1/3 of a mile, escaping the bugs, then turned around and and dropped down the 1700 foot climb in about 20 min. I saw no one on this trail on a sunday but there are easier ways to get where this trail goes. The campground next to the trail head is nice also. One fire pit has a rock wall built around it with nice seats made of rock. Looks like someone spent alot of time on it. No morels on the trip but I did find a few King boletes. Do this trail if you want solitude and a beautiful giant forest to roam, and want to get a good workout.