Gold Creek - Devils Slide — Sunday, Jun. 8, 2014

Central Washington > Yakima

Ethan, Brenda, Jonah, & I took a hike up the Gold Creek trail on this beautiful, sunny day. We hiked up past Devil's Slide to the Bald Mtn Road & then out the road towards Bald Mtn. We walked along the edge of Devil's Slide looking for the mountain goat herd that lives here, but only saw 2 or 3 goats. Once we got to the top of the ridge and the Bald Mtn Rd, we walked out towards Bald Mtn and found a beautiful lunch spot overlooking a very green basin at the head of the East Fork of Rock Creek with Mt Adams, the Goat Rocks, Mt Aix & Nelson Ridge, and Mt Rainier in the distance. After lunch we walked a little farther out until we could also see the Stuarts. Though this is a motorized area, the only other person we saw all day was a man on a quad on the Bald Mtn Rd. The mountains were out in all their glory and there were wildflowers the whole way. The big sloping meadow where the trail meets the road was solid spring beauties with some large patches of glacier lilies. There was a little snow in the trees higher up, but nothing to hold a person back. It was a great day!