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Home > Thompson Peak, via Goat Lake, September 13, 2013
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National Geodetic Survey Benchmark, 'Goat 1938', a bronze disk embedded in the outcropping bedrock on the summit block. A "Documented History (by NGS)" states this mark is "about 5' lower than, and 50' south of the highest point of the mountain". In "Idaho, a Climbing Guide", Lopez describes a couloir rising "up to the notch between the peak's east and west summits...scramble to the west over solid rock to the summit." We did not climb to the northeast summit, which, according to the NGS, is the higher.

National Geodetic Survey Benchmark, 'Goat 1938', a bronze disk embedded in the outcropping bedrock on the summit block. A "Documented History (by NGS)" states this mark is "about 5' lower than, and 50' south of the highest point of the mountain". In "Idaho, a Climbing Guide", Lopez describes a couloir rising "up to the notch between the peak's east and west summits...scramble to the west over solid rock to the summit." We did not climb to the northeast summit, which, according to the NGS, is the higher.

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