Most viewed - Thompson Peak, via Goat Lake, September 13, 2013
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IMG_3435.JPG18 viewsNorthwest from the summit.
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IMG_3438.JPG18 views
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IMG_3442.JPG18 views
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IMG_3443.JPG18 views
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IMG_3458.JPG18 views
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IMG_3462.JPG18 viewsThe orange block in the foreground is actually the pinnacle we first climbed in error, northwest of the northwest summit. Lopez, in "Idaho, a Climbing Guide" refers to the summit as the west of the two summits. This is where the register is, but the southeast summit is higher, according to National Geodetic Survey (see IMG_3503).
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IMG_3461.JPG18 views
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IMG_3464.JPG18 views
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IMG_3478.JPG18 viewsBaron Peak, southwest from summit of Thompson peak.
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IMG_3480.JPG18 viewsMt. Regan, west northwest from the summit of Thompson Peak. Sawtooth Lake is unseen on the right frame, in the valley in front of and below Regan. The trees in the bottom left of photo mark the location of the trail descending west along the North Fork of Baron Creek.
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IMG_3503.JPG18 viewsNational 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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IMG_3292.JPG17 viewsLooking southeast from near the Goat Lake use trail turnoff, the route climbs the right (north) side of the drainage to Goat Lake which is hidden between the two peaks.
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