Drove up the Westside Road In Mt Rainier National Park to hike up to Gobbler's Knob, 12.6 miles round trip with 2,565 ft of elevation gain. Due to chronic flooding from Tahoma Creek, the road is closed about 3 miles up. (In the winter, the road is closed almost the from the beginning). The morning started very cloudy. Nice fall colors at the base of Mt Wow at the start of the road walk.
Hike 3.8 miles up the Westside Road up to Round Pass. There was one bright spot of color among all the evergreen trees.
From Round Pass, the trail is 0.9 miles to Lake George.
Patrol cabin at Lake George
From Lake George it's 2.5 miles to the top of Gobbler's knob. The trail goes around the north shore of the lake.
About 0.8 mile up this trail, there is a pretty pond.
Log over the outlet of the pond.
View of the pond from the outlet.
At 1.1 miles from Lake George, the trail splits. To the left, the trail that will leave the park and head down to Goat Lake. To the right, the trail continues up another 0.4 miles to the top of Gobbler's Knob.
View of the fire lookout on top of Gobbler's Knob
At first, it was too cloud to see Mt Rainier from the top of Gobbler's Knob, but as I took a lunch break, the clouds began to move.
This was probably the best view of Mt Rainier while I was up on Gobbler's Knob.
slightly zoomed in photo
zoom of near the top of the mountain
another zoom of near the top of the mountain
Below to the southeast is Lake George and Tahoma Creek
Below to the west is Goat Lake
As I was hiking down along Gobbler's Knob, I could see Mt Rainier starting to disappear into the clouds again.
Sun light breaking through the clouds as I continue down Gobbler's Knob.
Another view of Lake George
Back at Round Pass, turned to the left about 100 yards to see the Marine Memorial.
And then the long walk back down the Westside Road. The fall colors seemed brighter in the sunshine.
Tahoma Creek was running very fast.
Fall color at the base of Mt Wow
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