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07-31-2018, 10:38 PM
Kat,
Your right about that place being a zoo!!! We got up there around 0930 on Saturday and all the parking lots where already full and there where vehicals lined up for a few hundred yards down the road. Luckily for my friend and I there was a parking spot that had some dead fall logs piled up in it, we had a Silky Katana Boy 650 saw with us so we cut our own parking spot in the lot just down the road from the trail head. Boom!!!
We got alot of questions about the goats from everyone. The boys did good, but I did end up hooking them nose to tail in line. It just worked out better for us and everyone else. I was suprised how scared some people are of animals. There goats for goodness sake. We ended up staying in the camp sight just past upper Hyas. On the map there where 3 streams that came together, they where all dry though which was a bummer. The funniest thing was where I low lined the goats people could see them from the hiking trail above, but they could not see our camp because we where using bivy sack. So all afternoon people would stop and try to figure out if my guys where "wild goats", then once they saw us they would almost always ask, "Are those your goats?". I told one guy no, he was very confused. Super funny for my friend and I.
We did go off trail on day 2. We basically followed one of the dry stream beds to Upper Hyas lake then stayed on the west side of it. We hand railed around that then camped at the top of Hyas lake. It was nice because there where no other people on that side. It also had some really nice places to fly fish. We ended up killing to pritty nice stoked brook trout and frying them up for dinner.
I was very suprised that they where still allowing camp fire up there. I called they Cle Elum ranger station twice the day before we left just to make sure that there was not a burn ban. There was not as long as you constructed a fire ring. Crazy!!!
I think I will pack the guys lighter next trip like you said. Crossing large dead fall never even crossed my mind as a problem. Rooky move!!
Your right about that place being a zoo!!! We got up there around 0930 on Saturday and all the parking lots where already full and there where vehicals lined up for a few hundred yards down the road. Luckily for my friend and I there was a parking spot that had some dead fall logs piled up in it, we had a Silky Katana Boy 650 saw with us so we cut our own parking spot in the lot just down the road from the trail head. Boom!!!
We got alot of questions about the goats from everyone. The boys did good, but I did end up hooking them nose to tail in line. It just worked out better for us and everyone else. I was suprised how scared some people are of animals. There goats for goodness sake. We ended up staying in the camp sight just past upper Hyas. On the map there where 3 streams that came together, they where all dry though which was a bummer. The funniest thing was where I low lined the goats people could see them from the hiking trail above, but they could not see our camp because we where using bivy sack. So all afternoon people would stop and try to figure out if my guys where "wild goats", then once they saw us they would almost always ask, "Are those your goats?". I told one guy no, he was very confused. Super funny for my friend and I.
We did go off trail on day 2. We basically followed one of the dry stream beds to Upper Hyas lake then stayed on the west side of it. We hand railed around that then camped at the top of Hyas lake. It was nice because there where no other people on that side. It also had some really nice places to fly fish. We ended up killing to pritty nice stoked brook trout and frying them up for dinner.
I was very suprised that they where still allowing camp fire up there. I called they Cle Elum ranger station twice the day before we left just to make sure that there was not a burn ban. There was not as long as you constructed a fire ring. Crazy!!!
I think I will pack the guys lighter next trip like you said. Crossing large dead fall never even crossed my mind as a problem. Rooky move!!