"No appreciable snow (though the grass in the meadows was notably matted down from the last week's storms). Wind was whipping enough at the top to give me a brain-freeze and encourage a hasty retreat. Jed the Peakbagging Pooch accompanied me." — TynanRammGranberg • Oct 19, 2020

"Bluebird day. 8:30 to 6:30 car-to-car, with a bike ride to the trailhead. I did not adequately factor in how much the ride to the trailhead was gonna gas me--haven't been biking much lately! I brought crampons and ice axe, but things were melted enough that there was no need for either. The first snowfield has a narrow four-step stretch of firm snow to cross (with an "ok" runout) with well-worn steps. That went fine in my trail runners. The south-facing snowfield near the summit was soft enough in the afternoon to simply walk up (and glissade down). The summit ladders creaked enough to get me slightly puckered. Still lots of Vaccinium deliciosum berries. Also got to watch a young goat frolicking like an idiot while the nanny looked on disapprovingly." — TynanRammGranberg • Oct 6, 2020

"My wife and I did a farewell-to-summer overnighter to Goat Lake and I nabbed this one on the morning of our departure. I left at 5:15 AM, about 90 minutes before sunrise. Unforecasted rain started immediately upon my departure, but it soon settled down to simple "cloud-walking". Visibility got progressively worse. With the visibility down to around 30 meters, I nearly turned around when it was time to depart the trail. I sat down in a memorable campsite near a large chunk of volcanic rock and took 20 minute power nap. When I awoke, the snow globe I was in had grown slightly more illuminated and I could see far enough to do a little route-finding, so I carried on. Many thanks to peakbagger user Ivan Mitloshuk for his GPS track. This fairly direct route from Snowgrass Flats has some loose rock as you approach the summit area, but nothing too puckering." — TynanRammGranberg • Sep 22, 2020

"Snow Lake to Gem to Main Roosevelt summit to North Roosevelt summit. It was raining and pretty slick going up/down main peak. Used an axe in the dirt. Easy scramble at top." — cloudbreach • Sep 20, 2020

"Left Sunrise Point at 6:30 AM with the plan of doing the trailed portion of this loop before many folks were on the trail, then returning via the ridge line. Saw nobody on the trail until I got to Dege Peak. Possibly some light Class 3 on the route I took to Marcus Peak and descending from Marcus to the south, but overall Class 2. Saw quite the gamut of ungulates: deer, mountain goats, and bull elk (the latter bugling and locking antlers in the meadows). Any time my GPS track descends from the ridgeline, I was following a game trail. It was a spectacular, blue bird day, but started brisk (36* when I left Sunrise Point). Met a very nice man from Ohio named Ricardo on the summit of Dege. I wish he wasn't traveling so extensively during the pandemic, but I wish him luck on his tour of the West. Note: Peakery currently lists both "The Palisades" and "Palisades Peak" for some reason." — TynanRammGranberg • Aug 30, 2020