East Goat Lone Tree

Description

In Montana’s Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness a lone treetop at 9900 feet near the summit of East Goat Peak (10,399 feet), is all that remains visible in an 8 to 10 feet deep snowpack.

This was my second attempt at a winter summit of West Goat Peak (10,793 feet). Unlike the first effort coming in from Lost Lakes Basin, I approached from the south. In the process, I made the summit of East and West Goat Peaks, and Saddle Mountain (10,185 feet), which was the connector of the two peaks.