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On a day trip from Mum & Gary's place today, we borrowed his 4WD truck
We'd seen others posting awesome photos surrounded by big mountain goats up here, so were keen to see them too
So no summit today, just a walk up to the 'camp site' and around the base of Gimli. In the end, we only saw 1 goat, but it was another super day nonetheless
- Kicking up a dust storm on the way in - slow and steady going, as there were over 70 water bars (wide, deep culverts) to get through
- Getting closer! Road in good condition in between those bars :D
- At the trailhead, signs for toilets pointed here (new one on us; saw a few of these on our different walks this holiday) :D
- A notice about the goats! Gave us confidence they were plentiful up there (and they probably are, but you're lucky to see them)
- Water crossing with a nice new bridge :)
- Getting near the top of the woods, we can start to see tops
- View down to our left; realising those goats have a huge space to move around in :D
- Nearing the campsite, we reckoned we could see a goat right on top of Gimli Peak, looking down on the climbers just beneath him (zoomed pics were just a blur though!)
- No goats around the campsite :( We'd not long passed a couple who said a group of 5 goats including a kid had just passed through here... but by the time we arrived they were nowhere to be seen!
- So we carried on, heading around the base of Gimli Peak
- Crossing boulders, noting they'd all fallen from the stripey rock face above us
- Fascinated by these 'zebra' rocks! :)
- View from the end of the track; we could hear climbers up there too, but this was as far as we were going today
- Peering over the edge, sharp drop to the glacier below
- Wider view across the basin
- Now to head back, over the zebra boulders to pick up the track again
- Back at the camp area we spotted a goat! (right of centre)
- Peek-a-boo :D
- Campsite facility :D
- View back to where we've been
- Heading down again - good track all the way
- Our stats; never sure why they end up so different! (Scoob had changed his batteries, but it didn't take 6 minutes!)