I loved the thru-hike that my friends and I had done the week before but I felt like I missed out on a big part of the scenery because of the cloudy conditions on the first day. I got off of the ferry from my daily commute to Seattle on Friday and ran into Mike at the ferry dock as he and his family were returning from a trip to Seattle. We got to talking and I said I was probably cancelling my High Divide trip for this weekend because the weather report showed mostly cloudy for that area but that the Goat Rocks looked like they may be sunny. Before long, we started talk of returning to the Goat Rocks to re-do the section that we did on the first day, at least partially so we could see what we missed. Well, we went and we were not disappointed in the long drive down there. 6 hours of driving for about 6 hours of hiking. Totally worth it!
