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Goat Pond South Peak | 2010-11-06
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Originally I planned to attempt an unnamed peak at GR096525 near Goat Pond or possibly go beyond to Goatview Peak, however due to the difficulty of ridge and severe wind condition, I settled at a closer unnamed peak GR099515 which I nicknamed “Goat Pond South Peak”.
I parked at Three Sisters Dam. From the parking lot, I followed a trail underneath a power line about 2.7 km until near a creek which was little hard to find. I think it would have been better to park at Goat Pond Dam but it only makes the trip few hundred meters shorter I believe. Most of the way from here I thought it would be a long bushwhacking but I was pleasantly wrong. There was a good trail all the way to where I started ascending (page 2). My advice here is to be patient and make sure not to start ascending too early or otherwise it will be more difficult. I guessed it so I avoided difficult scrambling by going farther to west on ascent but for descent I decided to take a shortcut. There was 2 difficult scrambling I had to face because of that (page 10). Maybe another way is to go farther than I did and wait until hitting drainage then start ascending. Pretty much this drainage takes you to the summit anyway, it’s maybe a good idea.
Ridge to GR096525 from the summit was certainly looked difficult and exposed (page7). I wanted to keep going as far as I could but as I mentioned earlier, because of strong wind, I turned around.
By the way road condition on 742 is restored!! It was so horrible this summer…
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