"The greeting party was there, as usual on top of Scotchman Peak on Thursday, rewarding my daughter and me for our steep 7-mile-round-trip hike from the northeast corner of Lake Pend Oreille," writes Rich Landers, SR Outdoors. "Mountain goats that live on the Idaho peak towering above Clark Fork, Idaho, have become an attraction in themselves" You can read more here. (SR photo: Rich Landers)

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